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[less_than_jess]

1. 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, either on your own journal or as a comment.
5. Don't go looking for your hip-trendy-literary-intellectual books. The nearest one. Grab it.

But I am not fooled.
This bleeding is, no doubt,
in the beholder's eye,
& if
to tend a garden

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[felshcanoe]

A year later, the morning after the motorcycle accident, my mother is strangling me in the ICU, muttering, You little shit, the heart monitor wildly peaking, a nurse coming in to drag her off. After I've spent the nght in surgery, after I drove off the road, after I ditched the bike to avoid hitting a stone wall. After I waved the first two cars on, insisting I was all right, pumped up with adrenaline, not wanting to believe Mary's wrist was broken.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City - Nick Flynn

[thedragondied]

For the first time in many days, Jaxom regretted the total absence of fire-lizards who could have helped him scrub his very dirty dragon. Once again he briefly wondered when, besides high noon of the day, they were.
It is the day after the evening we left, Ruth announced.

"The White Dragon" -- Anne McCaffrey

[rezeew828]

In prose and verse, French capitalization is the same as English except that the following terms are not capitalized in French unless they begin sentnces or, sometimes, lines of verse: (1) the subject pronoun je 'I,' (2) the names of months and days of the week, (3) the names of languages, (4) adjectives derived from prpoer nouns, (5) titles preceding personal names, and (6) the words meaning "street," "square," "lake," "mountain," and so on, in most place-names.

[mint_condition]

But the wrong-doers
Have no helpers.

271.
If ye disclose [acts
Of] charity, even so
It is well.
But ye conceal them,
And make them reach
Those [really] in need,
That is best for you:
It will remove from you
Some of your [stains
Of] evil.

THE HOLY QUR-AN
English translation
of the meanings
and Commentary [1410 H., 1989.7 A.D.]

[flyingbearhug]

Your excerpt sort of reminds me of Candide.