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Marc Geelhoed tagged me.

The rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

1.
Because I am writing this at work (note to Big Brother: I am on my lunch break), the nearest book is the one I brought to work today (note to Big Brother: I read on the train, not at my desk): Roger Angell's gem of a memoir, Let Me Finish.

2.
Page 123 is in the middle of Angell's essay about his stepfather, EB White.

3.
I have located the fifth full sentence on the page.

4.

He has looked at the roadside grunge and granite with the same eyes I do, and he does not labor for reference or add a chunk of scholarship to give them meaning; he waits for the connection--that extra moment--and delivers it with grace. I am included: this must be my thought, too, elegant as it has become. His editor William Shawn, writing after Andy's death, called him the most companionable of writers, but added that "renowned as his writing was for its simplicity and its clarity, his mind constantly took surprising turns, and his peculiar mixture of seriousness and humor could not have failed to astonish even him."

5.
Andrew Patner, Kris Vire, Famous Author Rob Byrnes, Erik Aughenbaugh, and Jeremy Hooper: you're it.