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Yoinked from [info]niroque
Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 67.
3. Find the ninth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 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.
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Elaborate hooks and blades -- of bone or obsidian -- were set along its length. There was a spike of glassy blackness at one end, adn a hilt at the other. A second grip was set halfway down the pole; perhaps the thing could be used like a quarterstaff.
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Tatja Grimm's World; by Vernor Vinge
Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 67.
3. Find the ninth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 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.
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Elaborate hooks and blades -- of bone or obsidian -- were set along its length. There was a spike of glassy blackness at one end, adn a hilt at the other. A second grip was set halfway down the pole; perhaps the thing could be used like a quarterstaff.
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Tatja Grimm's World; by Vernor Vinge