Stolen from
inactivism .
Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
In the darkness two trembling hands met violently. The popcorn bag exploded with a bang. The children shrieked.
"What's all that noise?" the woman at the candy counter asked the manager.
"He's here tonight," the manager told her, pointing across the theater to the hulking silhouette at the bottom of the screen.
-A Confederacy of Dunces, by the brilliant (and unfortunately deceased) John Kennedy Toole.
This meme actually was a struggle for me in finding the nearest book, since my desk is essentially an equal distance from ALL of my books. But this was close, so woot.