Nov 29, 2004 14:48
1. Take five (random!) 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:
(1)Alice was begining to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do. (2)He yielded to her, and his heart was glad. (3)But, odly enough, the world wasnt ready for him to rule, was it. (4)It took enormous effort to quarry these basalt blocks, each weighing ten to fourty tons, move them from quarries seventy-five miles away, and sculpt them into heads six to ten feet tall. (5)Amaranta could not conceal the repungnance that she felt at the table becasue of his bestial belching.
1. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
2. The Odyssey - Homer
3. The Story of B - Daniel Quinn
4. Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez