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Book meme!

Because I like memes, I’ve decided to participate in the Book Meme that Barefoot Bum just got tagged for. (He’s not tagging people because he’s nice. I’m not going to tag anyone either. Consider yourself tagged if you wanna. Don’t if you don’t.)

The rules:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the 5th Sentence.
4. Post the next 3 sentences.
5. Tag 5 people.

The nearest book is God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, which I haven’t started reading yet. (Need to finish The God Delusion first.)

The excerpt (Nice! It’s the beginning of a chapter on the Koran):

And here again there is a vast commentary of doubtful anecdote about the actual doings and sayings of the Prophet, this time known as the hadith.

Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world’s monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also.