Sep 26, 2008 11:52
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.
I'm doing this cuz it was on Tasha's lj:
The snow was firm, but going back would not be easy. Once down, he pulled his musket from its tanned hide covering and tapped some powder in the barrel from his blackhorn flask. Then he heard the raven call to him. He was sitting on a branch of one of the delicate quaking-leaf trees not fifty paces ahead. "You do not need your weapon, young man. There is nothing here to harm you."
White Man's Dog felt his eyes widen, and his heart began to beat like a drum in his throat. Raven laughed the throaty laugh of an old man, "It surprises you that I speak the language of the two-leggeds..."
This is from Fools Crow by James Welch. It's for my Indian Studies class. :]