book meme nabbed from kay
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next sentence* in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Interestingly... this is the book I was reading... and the ACTUAL STORY FROM IT THAT I READ at the coffee shop while waiting to meet Kay for the first time... see I was all off my rocker for whatever reason, and I ended up being an hour early to meet her because I thought I was late so I ran around Kits like a madman being attacked by rabid fleas... hailed a cab... then when I saw the time in the cab... I felt bad so I got them to take me to the area anyway... so I sat at the coffeeshop nearest the restaurant and read this book..but I digress...
"He kept the pair in view until he had seen them climbing the stairs of the Donnybrook tram; then he turned about and went back the way he had come."
From Dubliners, by James Joyce. (The story being quoted is Two Gallants.)
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next sentence* in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Interestingly... this is the book I was reading... and the ACTUAL STORY FROM IT THAT I READ at the coffee shop while waiting to meet Kay for the first time... see I was all off my rocker for whatever reason, and I ended up being an hour early to meet her because I thought I was late so I ran around Kits like a madman being attacked by rabid fleas... hailed a cab... then when I saw the time in the cab... I felt bad so I got them to take me to the area anyway... so I sat at the coffeeshop nearest the restaurant and read this book..but I digress...
"He kept the pair in view until he had seen them climbing the stairs of the Donnybrook tram; then he turned about and went back the way he had come."
From Dubliners, by James Joyce. (The story being quoted is Two Gallants.)