Another supposedly fun thing ...

[David Gentle]

------I wonder what's all that noise, and running backwards and forwards 
for, above stairs, quoth my father, addressing himslf, after an hour and a 
half's silence, to my uncle Toby...(etc)

Laurence Stern's The Life and Opionions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen.
The closest because it was on the bottom shelf of the small upstairs 
bookcase.


> 1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
> 2. Turn to page 56.
> 3. Find the fifth sentence.
> 4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
> 5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most
> intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
>
> "Although if the name is linked to pregnancy, it might suggest ectopic
> pregnancy, a dangerous condition where the fertilized egg is lodged in
> a fallopian tube, rather than the uterus."
>
> --Patrick Hurley, Pynchon Character Names: A Dictionary (Jefferson,
> NC: McFarland, 2008), "Fallopian, Mike (Lot 49)," p. 56

David Gentle