Pretty much anything becomes more entertaining by the addition of armadillos.

Mine is as follows:

"Hour after hour for nearly three weary days he had jogged up and down, over passes, through long dales, and across many streams."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

And why was this book closest to my computer? Because I was helping a random internet stranger by answering a Tolkien question and wanted to cite chapter and verse. I am such a geek. (Not that this is any way a distinction among your acquaintances.)