- Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
- Go to page 56.
- Find the 5th sentence.
- Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest
So, what did I get?
Deleting category or subcategory
The nearest book happened to be "Using Adobe Premiere Elements 7." So much for any illusion I may have been desperately clinging to as a literate intellectual. ;)
"Ignorance is bliss, dear" from Tell-Tale Horse by Rita Mae Brown
Su got: "At the same time the smell of burning sulphur permeated the den -- and there was a sharp intake of breath fro the next room."
--Douglas Niles, "Circle at Center"
Tom got: " I had never seen the Devil before, and, although I had written about him in the past, if pressed would have confessed I had no belief in him, other than as an imaginary figure, tragic and Miltonion."
--Neil Gaiman, "Smoke and Mirrors", story "The Price"
There was a brief list of possible side effects drawn up at the end of one American paper.