Untagged, Doing It Anyway Meme....
Jul. 4th, 2007 12:58 pm1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ 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 (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.
Not tagging either. Help yourself. Instead of nearest book, how about shutting your eyes, rising from your chair, staggering blindly to your bookshelves and pulling out whatever your hands touch first?
Using this method I encountered:
"What is this?" he asked, because he hadn't gotten cooperation out of anybody in this place and he didn't trust any of them. It might be a consent for them to go cutting on him, or giving him God knew what drug, and damned if he was going to sign it unread, in this place heavy as 1-deck.
They said, the they who came and went sometimes, cops, doctors, orderlies, he wasn't clear enough to figure that at the moment - "It's just so you can get out of here. You want to get out of here, don't you?"
HEAVY TIME by C.J. Cherryh
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ 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 (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy. Then go back to step 1).
6. Tag five people.
Not tagging either. Help yourself. Instead of nearest book, how about shutting your eyes, rising from your chair, staggering blindly to your bookshelves and pulling out whatever your hands touch first?
Using this method I encountered:
"What is this?" he asked, because he hadn't gotten cooperation out of anybody in this place and he didn't trust any of them. It might be a consent for them to go cutting on him, or giving him God knew what drug, and damned if he was going to sign it unread, in this place heavy as 1-deck.
They said, the they who came and went sometimes, cops, doctors, orderlies, he wasn't clear enough to figure that at the moment - "It's just so you can get out of here. You want to get out of here, don't you?"
HEAVY TIME by C.J. Cherryh