Just a little something.
I thought this meme was nice, so yeah.
Instructions:
- Grab the nearest book. *
- Open the book to page 123.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions
* 'nearest' means you can't rummage around for a 'cool' or 'intellectual' book. Really, whatever your hand falls on first. Let's hope it's not porn.
From The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
When I touched my forehead with my ungloved hand the fingers came away red. The quarter was gone; besides, I had forgotten the number. I would have to come back later, when the Boulder Tap was open and I could get change.
Interestingly enough the one-hundred twenty-third page was ear-marked. I have no real idea why. And, if you were worried, this won't become a habit. I just liked this idea.
Comments
"He was a hunky young guy in the wrong career who got my rocks off. For a straight guy, it would have been like being 14 and having one of the centerfolds from Playboy step out of the magazine and offer you a bottle of mineral oil. Like you'd complain?"
"Magical Thinking" by Augusten Burroughs.
Do the words at random out of a book have meaning in my life? ::: blink blink::::
No, I did not complain. I'd won the love lottery - or as my best friend told me, "get em young and train em."
Hunky might be a stretch, but young and rocks seem appropriate. I guess I tend to leave that part out of my story...