I’ve done this probably half a dozen times somewhere or other but desktop is a surging sea so the book of the day to the tap from JimK. It’s a slight variation, lines rather than sentences.
–Go to a nearby book.
–Go to page 56
–Quote the 5th line and the next 2 lines.
–Pick another set of people to be tagged.
Nearest book is A First Bilingual English/Punjabi visual dictionary.
(No sentences and only 4 lines per page.) 5th concept?
nalsaaz: plumber.
2
deFORMed
gAg
from one that actually has a 5th line, Rampike, The Invention of Language by Kim Goldberg, but isn’t a book technically,…
And because things are better in 3s, and because that was a dud of an excerpt in isolation, here’s a snippet from one with, paragraphs…Gramma Knows the F Word: How to Discover More Fun in Your Life by Tedd Schredd:
“Plan it out in stages. Don’t get ahead of yourself and don’t expect big changes immediately. You make your life happen, it is not something that just occurs.”
Alright, who wants to do the meme today? Nomination ballot now open.
btw, The new season of A B Series is up including a sound performance troupe from Australia coming to the NAC.
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