"Baris clapped the Supervisor on its large, muscular back."
Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap, Simon Messingham
Rules:
* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write this sentence – either here or on your blog.
* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
* Don’t look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.
How did I know it would be a Doctor Who book?
Only because the new ones had just been unboxed from Amazon. 20 minutes earlier and it would have been Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers.
It is: “Harris complicates the idea of a coherent disciplinary discourse and maintains that the job of teachers is to help students negotiate the multiple and contradictory discourses in which they will be implicated as writers and communicators” — Multiliteracies for a Digital Age / Stuart A. Selber
“You always go away, and I have to take care of Zoe and Enzo all by myself, and I can’t do it!” — The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
“You have an active curiosity.” — StrengthsQuest, 2nd. edition
“He had begun the afternoon by taking down from their places the various works in his meagre library which bore more or less relation to the task in hand.” -Harold Frederic, The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination
Bibliomancy!
I’ve always heard this as turning to p. 23, sentence 5–I wonder when it changed to p. 56? There are a bunch of google results for p. 23 from 2004, and p. 56 from 2008. Interesting!
“dribbling violation: steps, traveling, walking”
Flip Dictionary, Barbara Ann Kipfer. Writer’s Digest Books, 2000.
(My quote probably would have been a lot more interesting if the nearest book to me hadn’t been a reference tool.)
“How can I?”
-A Christmas Carol