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1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
it all began the day my brother and i decided to poison our mother. so seemed far off the flying fiend: at last appear hell bounds high reaching to the horrid roof, and thrice threefold to the gates; three folds were brass, three iron, three of adamantine rock, impenetrable, impaled with circling fire, yet unconsumed. i feel like a big faker because i've beem putting my life back together, and nobody knows. all this time the guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera glass. nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, i think of dean moriarty, i even think of old dean moriarty the father we never found, i think of dean moriarty.
1 raspberries on the yangtze (karen wallace)
2 paradise lost (john milton)
3 the perks of being a wall flower (stephen chbosky)
4 alice's adventures in wonderland/through the looking glass (lewis carroll)
5 on the road (jack kerouac)
so i'm going to do what alia did. im going to put them in a different order and you guess the books!
i am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. i told them that i was thinking they were very amazing maniacs and that i spent the whole night listening to them like a man watching the mechanism of a watch that reached clear to the top of the Berthoud pass and yet was made with the smallest works of the most delicate watch in the world. look, said andrew as kindly as he could since he never liked sandra much. someone intent on mischief, or inspired with dev'lish machination might devise like instrument to plague the sons of men for sin. life, what is it but a dream?
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
it all began the day my brother and i decided to poison our mother. so seemed far off the flying fiend: at last appear hell bounds high reaching to the horrid roof, and thrice threefold to the gates; three folds were brass, three iron, three of adamantine rock, impenetrable, impaled with circling fire, yet unconsumed. i feel like a big faker because i've beem putting my life back together, and nobody knows. all this time the guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera glass. nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, i think of dean moriarty, i even think of old dean moriarty the father we never found, i think of dean moriarty.
1 raspberries on the yangtze (karen wallace)
2 paradise lost (john milton)
3 the perks of being a wall flower (stephen chbosky)
4 alice's adventures in wonderland/through the looking glass (lewis carroll)
5 on the road (jack kerouac)
so i'm going to do what alia did. im going to put them in a different order and you guess the books!
i am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. i told them that i was thinking they were very amazing maniacs and that i spent the whole night listening to them like a man watching the mechanism of a watch that reached clear to the top of the Berthoud pass and yet was made with the smallest works of the most delicate watch in the world. look, said andrew as kindly as he could since he never liked sandra much. someone intent on mischief, or inspired with dev'lish machination might devise like instrument to plague the sons of men for sin. life, what is it but a dream?