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thanate ([personal profile] thanate) wrote2004-04-15 12:48 pm

madly packing for CO, couldn't you tell...

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

To appease the gods of death, the bodies of important personages were preserved against decay by embalming, which involved cleansing the interior of the abdomen and rinsing it with fragrant spices, including cumin, anise, marjoran, cassia, and cinnamon. --fr The Book of Spices, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr, which was closest b/c it's sitting here on my bed waiting for me to work out where it ought to go (re: ancient China)