Ganked from nesmith:

[camwyn]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

I put out my hand and grabbed the first book to fall under my fingers, since there's a bookshelf right next to me. Here's the result:

"There is nothing you can't discuss in Canada when it comes to sex."

(That's the fifth sentence as far as I'm concerned- 'Incessantly.' does not count as a sentence despite the full stop at the end. Where's the verb? Yeesh.)

Comments

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Ok that is NOT RIGHT.

You pull out a book, and it's SEX and Canada?!

FRANK!!!

[inverseparadox.livejournal.com]

...okay, let me be the first to ask: what book was that?

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

O.K. Good one. Mine was from Mary Woolstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Cool. (The book was the Norton Anthology of English Lit.)

[sookail.livejournal.com]

XD

...which book?

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

I don't know the book ... but ... true.

I have had many interesting conversations here in my home and native land on that topic *G*

[chicazul.livejournal.com]

What I found funny about that is that I own that book, and knew exactly what chapter that was from--even what the page looks like. (:

[camwyn]

The Canada shelf is at hand height when I sit in this particular chair. Had the chair been a bit lower I would have grabbed Cutting Up In The Kitchen: The Butcher's Guide To Saving Money On Meat & Poultry by Merle Ellis instead. The shelf above that would have yielded either a small, old-smelling book on the island of Hokkaido, my copy of Unmentionable Cuisine, or Ethnic Canadians, Vol. 8: Culture and Education, by Martin L. Kovacs. It's just that at this height, the other book was the very first one under my fingers.

[camwyn]

How To Be A Canadian (Even If You Already Are One), by Will and Ian Ferguson. It was a gift from mountainspeak.

[camwyn]

This one.

[camwyn]

When I saw what book I'd grabbed, i was rather hoping it'd be that chapter. I was quite pleased to see that, indeed, it was.