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Mar. 23rd, 2005 12:481. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog 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.
"The antennae flickered, the eye-stalks swung to and fro, but he seemed too to be listening to some inner voice, a signal that Cally and Westerly could not hear.
"As they climbed higher, the heat of the sun grew less oppressive; it no longer weighed on them like a huge heavy hand as it had in the desert valley. The mountains too began to change, the hard stone-studded clay giving way to glittering grey rock, steep and craggy."
Susan Cooper, Seaward; I just looked at the copyright on it and it's from 1983, so it must have been just after or during her The Dark Is Rising sequence. I was hunting the upstairs shelves for some light reading and discovered it -- it seems that my mom picked it up at the used bookstore at some point. I'm always up for good young-adult fantasy, particularly of a British flavor (but since when has American YA fiction been good? Enh...)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog 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.
"The antennae flickered, the eye-stalks swung to and fro, but he seemed too to be listening to some inner voice, a signal that Cally and Westerly could not hear.
"As they climbed higher, the heat of the sun grew less oppressive; it no longer weighed on them like a huge heavy hand as it had in the desert valley. The mountains too began to change, the hard stone-studded clay giving way to glittering grey rock, steep and craggy."
Susan Cooper, Seaward; I just looked at the copyright on it and it's from 1983, so it must have been just after or during her The Dark Is Rising sequence. I was hunting the upstairs shelves for some light reading and discovered it -- it seems that my mom picked it up at the used bookstore at some point. I'm always up for good young-adult fantasy, particularly of a British flavor (but since when has American YA fiction been good? Enh...)
