Random Non-Paper-Writing Fun
1.] grab the nearest book.
2.] open the book to page 23.
3.] find the fifth sentence.
4.] post the text of the next three 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.
From We by Yevgeny Zamyatin:
And the troubling X is not within me (it cannot be); it is simply my fear that some X may remain in you, my unknown readers.
I swear I didn't reach you a cool, intellectual book in my closet. Nope, I keep my favorite four 20 century sci fi books (We, Brave New World, 1984, and The Martian Chronicles) right above my bed, which I'm sitting on. I'm not a geek at all.