Aug 17, 2006 23:36
Instructions:
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.
"Then you might come home some day and find on your table all the countless pleas relating to the case, which you had drawn up with such pains and such high hopes; they had been returned to you because in the new stage of the trial they were not admitted as relevant; they were mere waste paper. It did not follow that the case was lost, by no means, at least there was no decisive evidence for such an assumption; you simply knew nothing more about the case and would never know anything more about it. Now, very luckily, such occurrences were exceptional, and even if K's case were a case of that nature, it still had a long way to go before reaching that stage."
from The Trial by Franz Kafka