book meme

As seen on Pharyngula

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

The Book: My first two thousand years: the autobiography of the wandering jew by George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge

The sentence: "If it was one's fate to starve, why add to it the pain of labour?"

I'm impressed :)