I saw you sleeping with your coat on a hill

[sovay]

From time_shark, a meme. I can't remember if I have done this one before.

Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"They are a form of armadillo, enlarged wood-lice."
—Jane Gardam, Old Filth (2004)

Comments

[zdenka]

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.)

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Ohh, before scrolling down to the author line, I read the quote, and my heart did a little dance, and I just felt it was something I loved. So happy to see it was this.

[zdenka]

Glad to oblige!

[sovay]

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

This is true. Also badgers.

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.

That's legitimate. I was looking up Cicero's Second Philippic for someone a few days ago.

[zdenka]

That link is hilarious.