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1. Take five (random!) books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. Once, on a particularly difficult night, I reported Vince's insubordination to David Hopkinson, the night manager, himself a formidable figure when he chose to be. "But he used you," Ax persists. "They look very ... powerful," said Agnes. Hello, Mars. From a member of the Martian race.
Books (grabbed off random shelves in two different rooms): Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White; Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island; Ken Macleod, The Stone Canal; Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum; Gregory Benford, The Martian Race.
OK; two small cheats; the first first book I grabbed was Collins' The Law and the Lady, which starts with a longish Bible verse; and the last 'sentence' has a period in the middle.
redbird1. Take five (random!) books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. Once, on a particularly difficult night, I reported Vince's insubordination to David Hopkinson, the night manager, himself a formidable figure when he chose to be. "But he used you," Ax persists. "They look very ... powerful," said Agnes. Hello, Mars. From a member of the Martian race.
Books (grabbed off random shelves in two different rooms): Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White; Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island; Ken Macleod, The Stone Canal; Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum; Gregory Benford, The Martian Race.
OK; two small cheats; the first first book I grabbed was Collins' The Law and the Lady, which starts with a longish Bible verse; and the last 'sentence' has a period in the middle.