Feb 05, 2007 14:16
1. Grab the nearest book. (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.)
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.
Young Doctor Jeems looked surprised and indignant. He was one of the brighter young men of Kingston Hopital despite the fact that he was not a peeper, and was fanatically devoted to his work. "In this day and age? Nothing is permanent except physical death, Miss Noyes, and up at Kingston we've started working on that."
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. (And 'peeper' is the book's slang for psychic)