Because I Love This Meme

[amberdulen]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
Esther gave this answer to take

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neat

[triped]

"And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent, untroubled sleep.
IV
It is always interesting, even in the prisoner's dock, to hear oneself being talked about. And certainly in the speeches of my lawyer and the prosecuting counsel a great deal was said about me; more, in fact, about me personally than about my crime."

[sir_derlin]

"'Instead, with the last of its mental energy it directed the metal-men who survived the crash to put its host's body where it would be safe from the wrath of Prrdrexus. It wisely chose this world: a world that forever flees just before the shadow of the Great Voids.'
'And you, then - ', I began."

[_starlady_]

He saw it emerge out of the distance on a long downward slant, a tiny glowing spot that grew enormously into a metal ball. The great shining globe hissed by above Coeurl, slowing visibly in quick deceleration. It sped over a black line of hills to the right, hovered almost motionless for a second, then sank down out of sight.
Coeurl exploded from his startled immobility. With tiger speed, he flowed down among the rocks. His round, black eyes burned with the horrible desire that was an agony within him. His ear tendrils vibrated a message of id in such tremedous quantities that his body felt sick with the pangs of his abnormal hunger.

"Black Destroyer" by A. E. Van Vogt from the anthology The World Turned Upside Down

Funny thing--I don't think this is my book and I have no idea where it came from. It was just sitting there. Looks good, though . . . January 2005 hardback $24.00 --cool!