I wasn’t going to, but I couldn’t res­ist! The instruc­tions are:

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

Here’s mine:

There were enough exiles, it was reckoned, to sup­port a journal in any one of these lan­guages, not to men­tion the new floods that were com­ing in every week.

Does any­one recog­nise the book? It is not the one I am read­ing now, but the one I fin­ished yes­ter­day. Yes, I know that doesn’t help.
Hat tip to Matt