Book meme

Book meme (tagged by The Great and Powerful Santa Wege at Norwegianity).

   1. Grab the book closest to you.
   2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence
   3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog
   4. Name of the book and the author
   5. Tag three people

Wege ordered me not to cheat, even though page 123 was the last page of text in the first book I grabbed*, and there was only one last sentence left:

Many them, of course, are imagined in contexts far removed from early medieval Ireland.
                                                                                    S H
                                                                                    1984
Seamus Heaney. Station Island. New York: FSG, 1985.

I tag Jason, Bill, and Chris.

*Other books in the same stack with perfectly serviceable page 123s were Jonathan Carver's Travels Through The Interior Parts of North America, Mari Sandoz' Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, Witter Bynner's translation of The Jade Mountain,  Riverbend's Baghdad Burning, the Norton Anthology of Post Modern American Poetry, and Father O'Reilly's Martyrs of the Coliseum. 

Blame the Wege's policing my integrity that you missed out on some choice passages, especially Frank O'Hara comparing himself to a pile of leaves or a young bishop about to get torched like one.