1. Pick up any book.
2. Go to page 127.
3. Find third sentence
4. Post it on your blog (plus these instructions)
5. Don't choose the book, just pick up the one closest to you.

Why? I don't know why. Why not, especially since I've always got a book to hand?

'Such reinforcement lends legitimacy to possibly controversial decisions and actions and also serves as a constant reminder to all peacekeepers.'
- Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping, edited by Dyan Mazurana, Angela Raven-Roberts and Jane Parpart

There's something about the pointlessness of this exercise I find appealing. Or maybe not the pointlessness so much as the effortlessness, because everything seems to be so much work right now. Writing is like pulling teeth and research is just dreary. Bleh. I hate to feel like I'm just slogging, with no inspiration behind what I'm doing.

Added:  From a blogless friend, who would've commented if Tripod hadn't done something new and alarmingly non-functional to the comments facility (sorry, if anyone else has found it not working - unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about it aside from send irate e-mails):

"Priests should, therefore, ensure that they so preside over the celebration of the Eucharist that the faithful know that they are attending not a rite established on private initiative, but the Church's public worship, the regulation of which was entrusted by Christ to the apostles and their successors." 
-Sacrosantum concilium (The Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy) Chapter 9, paragragh 45.