Sometimes, a person can have so much to say that they don’t know where to start.

Words jumble up in your head because the ideas brewing there are too big to express.  And you don’t want to scare people.

Devoting evenings to a wayward and forgotten soldier in the vanquished army of a short lived nation of rebels will do that to you.

Thank goodness for memes.

I got this meme from whall.  I like it because it’s short and not overly personal.

Not that I have a problem being personal.  It’s just that, well, I’m not sure everyone really cares about whether I like blue cheese salad dressing or not.  (Not, by the way.)

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

My results?

The Mind of the South, W. J. Cash:

“The God demanded was an anthropomorphic God — the Jehovah of the Old Testament: a God who might be seen, a God who had been seen.”

Yeah.  Actually working on my thesis.  Which explains that.

I’d love to see your results.  T.V. Guide totally counts as a book.