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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
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
At the stroke of six Ikey Snigglefritz laid down his goose. The news was announced on television. This explains why the sound of lyres is amplified by the tortoise-shell or horn; and again, why winding and enclosed compartments make for greater reverberations. These creations no more insisted of the actual presence of other human beings than they demanded the collaboration of a dancer and a drum. A cloud - as it were of the dust of men's lives.
1 - 41 Stories - O'Henry
2 - The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux
3 - The Nature of the Gods - Cicero
4 - Collected Essays - James Baldwin
5 - The Soul of London - Ford Madox Ford
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
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:
At the stroke of six Ikey Snigglefritz laid down his goose. The news was announced on television. This explains why the sound of lyres is amplified by the tortoise-shell or horn; and again, why winding and enclosed compartments make for greater reverberations. These creations no more insisted of the actual presence of other human beings than they demanded the collaboration of a dancer and a drum. A cloud - as it were of the dust of men's lives.
1 - 41 Stories - O'Henry
2 - The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux
3 - The Nature of the Gods - Cicero
4 - Collected Essays - James Baldwin
5 - The Soul of London - Ford Madox Ford