Erin said to, so I will

Here are the rules
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 in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!

Euclid's Elements, Page 123, sentences 5-8

Let AB be the given finite straight line; thus it is required to cut AB in mean and extreme ratio. On AB let the square BC be described; and let there be applied to AC the parallelogram CD equal to BC and exceeding by the figure AD similar to BC. Now BC is a square; therefore AD is also a square.

What fun. I liked book 4.