1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.“And a jay bird lands there on the head of the flower.” - Doris: An Anthology of Zines and Other Stuff 1991-2001
“Would you say the impression Murillo gives of the boys is positive or negative?” Realidades 1 textbook. haha, I’m lesson planning.
Motivation also has an impact. My AP Psychology book. What a boring sentence.
“Additional loyalty was displayed by the thirty-seven servants who remained: Cartwright armed them with guns, sticks, and stones and laid in ambush when he suspected - mistakenly - that the privateers had returned later in September.” - The Creative Misunderstandings of George Cartwright: A Popular Culture in Cartwright’s Labrador, 1770 - 1786, by Stephen Hay. It’s his MA thesis, and I’m referencing it in something I’m writing.
I mean, I’m not on Tumblr right now, my computer wrote this post itself.
“Trouble laughed softly, not entirely displeased by the image.” Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott.
However, if you had asked me for page 305, the page I was actually reading, the fifth sentence would have been, “Trouble closed her eyes, giving herself up to the sensations, the too-slow touch, easing between her labia, thumb circling her clit while a finger pressed and entered her.” A far superior sentence.
Also, this is why I love my life: I’m reading kickass lesbian cyberpunk for class. I’m writing about marginalized bodies and cyberspace, and debating whether I want to compare/contrast the in-person sex on p. 305 with some virtual sex earlier in the novel; the in-person sex is described as totally superior specifically because it involves the actual body, which ties into my overall thesis about how the book rejects the disembodiment of typical cyberpunk.
Also, I am not on tumblr either. My computer is having the same problem as Anna’s. I swear.
