2008-Oct-03, Friday

Text Meme

2008-Oct-03, Friday 16:52
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* Grab the nearest book.

* Open the book to page 56.

* Find the fifth sentence.

* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions if you want to.

* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Note: page 56 is an illustration (just as every even numbered page in this book is, so I'm posting from page 57 which has essentially 2 lines--it's the nature of the book see...)

A Winner would rather blame himself than others--

Winners and Losers: by Sydney J Harris

This book is always right here on the table next to me. I promised to post out of it from time to time, and often forget.

The whole passage goes like this.

A Loser blames 'politics' or 'favoritism' for his failure. A Winner would rather blame himself than others--but he doesn't waste much time on any kind of blame.

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