Resurrecting the book extract meme

[wellinghall]

Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book on your desk! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

My answer:
"A similar Porter Cake was made here in England, named after the dark smoky taverns and ale houses known as Porter Houses, where it was widely believed 'Porters' drank the dark ale."

The book is "Cakes, Regional and Traditional", by Julie Duff.

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This will be quite long

[arda-unmarred.livejournal.com]

"He was dismissive in advance, asking whether his fellow delegates would behave like 'squabbling little millennial sects who imagine they have outrun all their contemporaries because they have transferred their old vague vision of the Kingdom of Heaven from the clouds to the earth, with a little rudimentary Liberalism thrown in by way of "palliative" political flavouring' or like 'a serious practical Democratic and Collectivist movement in politics and public opinion.' The Fabian Society had prepared a 'Report on Fabian Policy and Resolutions Presented by the Fabians Society to the International Socialist Workers' and Trade Unions' Congress', which was subsequently republished as the seventieth Fabian tract. But it did not receive much attention."

James Alexander, Shaw's Controversial Socialism