Yoinked from
firelizard5:
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).
... Given that the nearest book to hand was a software manual, and the fifth sentence on page 23 was about halfway through an explanaion of how to create a new document, I think I'll go for the
next nearest book.
... ... which is the Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. Not exactly sentences there. Um.
Okay! Here we go:
"Who can this be?" cried Elinor. "So early too! I thought we had been safe."
Marianne moved to the window—
"It is Colonel Brandon!" said she, with vexation. "We are never safe from him."