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Game rules: grab the book closest to you right now. Open to pg. 56. Choose the 5th sentence. Publish as your status and write these rules as a comment. Don't choose the book you like best or think is the coolest, but the one that is closest.

I never do these because I never have a book in easy reach anymore, but this time I did, so:

"I just saw in today's column where you asked: 'In 1980 did William Casey really trade his wife and six new guinean virgins for the stolen carter campaign papers?'"

Date: 2011-02-02 08:24 pm (UTC)
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"Fairly characterized or not, most of those so described have been consigned to the dustbin of history."

The author, David Waldstricher, in Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution, is commenting upon Benjamin Franklin's explanation in his Autobiography as to why his rival printers in colonial America failed, while he succeeded so splendidly.

See what exciting days of reading I spend? Ha!

Love, c.

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