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14 April 2004
joining the game
An exercise that's been making the rounds of some of the blogs I read (Terry Teachout's About Last Night and Crescat Scententia):
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.
Oh, dear. Following the instructions--for me, at this moment--results in the following:
Annuitization is wonderfully effective in allowing a person to consume capital without fear of outliving his capital, but the corollary is also manifest: Accounts that have been annuitized disappear on the deaths of the annuitants.
Perhaps I'll try this again later...