Drew told me to:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
From a book called Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson:
Godfrey: “Tortured?”
That didn’t quite work out like I had hoped, but it is still interesting nonetheless.
Brad Froehle 
Okay, I’ll give it a try:
From The Sum of All Fears, by Tom Clancy:
But each was a plutonium fission* bomb with a nominal yield of 60 kilotons, quite enough to carve the heart out of a large city, or to kill thousands of troops in the field, or, with the addition of cobalt jackets – stored separately, but readily attachable to the external skin – to poison a landscape to all kinds of life for years to come.
*Since the only book within reach was the one on my PalmPilot, I used that one. And since each “page” on the e-book is maybe 1/3 a normal page, only the “But each was a Pu fission” part was actually on the 23rd page. So technically, most of this is sentence one on page 24. 🙂
All my books are currently approximately equidistant, so I just chose my favorite…
Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard
Yes, but he wasn’t a poet like our Ezra, he was a botanist who described a dwarf dahlia in Martinique and died there after being bitten by a monkey.
The one that was actually closest…
Classic Mythology by Stephen L. Harris and Gloria Platzner
Even goddesses occasionally deigned to bestow their love on young men: Thetis, a beautiful sea nymph, bore Achilles to the mortal Peleus; and lovely Aphrodite seduced the Trojan shepherd-prince Anchises to produce Aeneas, who attained enormous prominence in later Roman myth (see the Aeneid in Chapter 19.
Some people need to learn to write shorter sentences…
From the closest book I like…
“How noble,” the Revernd Mother sneered.
~Dune, by Frank Herbert
From the book that was actually the closest…
If two atoms of the same element are covalently bonded, there is an equal sharing of the pair(s) of electrons in the outer shell.
~Life: The Science of Biology, by Purves, William K. et al.
that was…interesting…
I’ve been instructed by Annie to do this. So here goes. . .
“But here the idea is different: Humans are said to exist within social patterns, social forces, or social facts; this is a much more complex and profound idea.”
^Sociology sucks my ass. . .