Sep 30, 2008 10:45
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next few 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.
Technically... the New Testament is the closest book, but it's serving the function of keeping my phone from freaking out my roomie when it vibrates by insulating it from the desktop. So Dracula it is.
"They came close to me and looked at me for some time and then whispered together. Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the count's, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great, wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where."
Dracula by Bram Stoker