My favorite gal in a wimple has just notified me that I’ve been “meme’d”, which I think is a good thing.

The meme is this:

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

Okay. I glanced over to the shelf next to my desk and the first book that caught my eye is The Intimate Merton, a compendium of his journals.

Following the instructions, this is what I found, his remembrance of a dream, from a journal entry in 1958:

I ask her her name and she says her name is Proverb. I tell her that is a beautiful and significant name, but she does not appear to like it — perhaps the others have mocked her for it. When I awake, I rationalize it complacently.

Well. There you have it. Now I need to think of five people to tag and pass it on…