Everyone's doing it. . .
Book meme
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ 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 (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
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From "Mort" by Terry Pratchett:
And a hand grabbed his hair and dragged him to the surface, which was suddenly full of pain. Ghastly blue and black blotches swam in front of his eyes. His lungs were on fire. His throat was a pipe of agony.
Hands - cold hands, freezing hands, hands that felt like a glove full of dice - towed him through the water and threw him down on the bank where, after some game attempts to get on with drowning, he was eventually bullied back into what passed for his life.
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It really does say "glove full of dice" but I think it's supposed to be "ice". Good thing I left this sitting on the table next to my computer, otherwise the nearest book would have been the phone book. Of course there is also a bookshelf within 6 feet of me with at least 150 books - mostly sci-fi and fantasy novels - on it.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ 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 (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
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From "Mort" by Terry Pratchett:
And a hand grabbed his hair and dragged him to the surface, which was suddenly full of pain. Ghastly blue and black blotches swam in front of his eyes. His lungs were on fire. His throat was a pipe of agony.
Hands - cold hands, freezing hands, hands that felt like a glove full of dice - towed him through the water and threw him down on the bank where, after some game attempts to get on with drowning, he was eventually bullied back into what passed for his life.
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It really does say "glove full of dice" but I think it's supposed to be "ice". Good thing I left this sitting on the table next to my computer, otherwise the nearest book would have been the phone book. Of course there is also a bookshelf within 6 feet of me with at least 150 books - mostly sci-fi and fantasy novels - on it.