Tagged by gena_girl - book meme!
I think I've done this one before, ages ago, but I'm v. happy to do it again :) Here's the lowdown...
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ 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 (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.
Kk, then :) The nearest book to me is a dictionary, but it doesn't contain sentences and so I've reached for the second closest instead.
It was over. The rain stopped instantly and the wind swept the air clear; a few minutes later the cloud had passed from the lowering sun and it rode there, blazing from a perfect, even bluer sky. To westward the world was unchanged, just as it always had been apart from white caps on the sea; to the east the squall still covered the place he had last seen the ship; and in the widening sunlit stretch between the rock and the darkness a current bore a stream of fledgling birds, hundreds of them. And all along the stream he saw sharks, some large, some small, rising to the bodies.
The whole rock was still streaming - the sound of running water everywhere. He splashed down the slope calling, "Nicolls, Nicolls!" Some of the birds--he had to avoid them as he stepped--were still crouching flat over their eggs or nestlings; some were preening themselves.
[HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian]
Tagged (but only if y'all feel like it)...
alex51324
drunken_hedghog
t_eyla
topaz_eyes
tourmaline1973
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ 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 (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.
Kk, then :) The nearest book to me is a dictionary, but it doesn't contain sentences and so I've reached for the second closest instead.
It was over. The rain stopped instantly and the wind swept the air clear; a few minutes later the cloud had passed from the lowering sun and it rode there, blazing from a perfect, even bluer sky. To westward the world was unchanged, just as it always had been apart from white caps on the sea; to the east the squall still covered the place he had last seen the ship; and in the widening sunlit stretch between the rock and the darkness a current bore a stream of fledgling birds, hundreds of them. And all along the stream he saw sharks, some large, some small, rising to the bodies.
The whole rock was still streaming - the sound of running water everywhere. He splashed down the slope calling, "Nicolls, Nicolls!" Some of the birds--he had to avoid them as he stepped--were still crouching flat over their eggs or nestlings; some were preening themselves.
[HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian]
Tagged (but only if y'all feel like it)...
alex51324
drunken_hedghog
t_eyla
topaz_eyes
tourmaline1973