Nick from the accursed share has just hooked into the 123-5 bibliomancy meme courtesy of Fido the Yak who tagged me. The steps are:

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 bloggers.

Last time I hit this meme I was reading through the Collapse journal, this time it’s the Continuum edition of Nietzsche and Philosophy by Deleuze, which I’m currently teaching to my third years (though not today as I’ve been off sick with a dose of gastroenteritis, so the seminar was canceled today…)

"Bad conscience suggests to him that he must look for this cause ‘in himself, in some guilt, in a piece of the past, he must understand his suffering as a punishment (GM III 20 p. 140).  And the priest appears a second time in order to preside over this change of direction: ‘Quite so, my sheep!  someone must be to blame for it – you alone are to blame for yourself!’ (GM III 15 p. 128).  The priest invents the notion of sin."

Mmm…

I tag Morrigan, John, Levi, Jennifer and Doloras