Epigram Of The Day
16 June 2007 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nuranarSwiped from Everybody and his dog:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
I'm glad I didn't do this when I had 50+ sci fi books spread in ever-widening circles around me. That would've been an exercise in geometry.
From The Skylark of Space, by E. E. 'Doc' Smith:
" 'Modesty gets a man praise, but I prefer cash.' " *g*
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
I'm glad I didn't do this when I had 50+ sci fi books spread in ever-widening circles around me. That would've been an exercise in geometry.
From The Skylark of Space, by E. E. 'Doc' Smith:
" 'Modesty gets a man praise, but I prefer cash.' " *g*
