Book meme
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Actually, its original coating was a strong, rusty umber, but the passing centuries had sapped the mineral pigment of its oxidic potency, leaving it a flat, dull rose, like a dance hall memory, and so thin that the original wood showed through it like the night sky through a canopy of fishnet. In addition, there were five blue bands -- four narrow, one broad -- around the stick's middle, although these, too, were badly faded. Painted Stick's top end was notched, as if someone had tried to carve little horns there, little bull's horns. These cresent-shaped nubs once had been guilded, and flecks of gold leaf still clung to them, like spinach to teeth. His length was under a yard, but he was long enough to have been a cane for a blind jockey or a baton for a conductor with an overbearing personality.
Did I mention that Tom Robbins is the bomb? No? Well, I'm going to make a seperate post beyond this meme about him.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Actually, its original coating was a strong, rusty umber, but the passing centuries had sapped the mineral pigment of its oxidic potency, leaving it a flat, dull rose, like a dance hall memory, and so thin that the original wood showed through it like the night sky through a canopy of fishnet. In addition, there were five blue bands -- four narrow, one broad -- around the stick's middle, although these, too, were badly faded. Painted Stick's top end was notched, as if someone had tried to carve little horns there, little bull's horns. These cresent-shaped nubs once had been guilded, and flecks of gold leaf still clung to them, like spinach to teeth. His length was under a yard, but he was long enough to have been a cane for a blind jockey or a baton for a conductor with an overbearing personality.
Did I mention that Tom Robbins is the bomb? No? Well, I'm going to make a seperate post beyond this meme about him.