Sentence meme from muninnhuginn

[wellinghall]

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"In contrast, the sympathetic system has an activating function."

adaese's copy of "Basic Psychology" by Gleitman.

ETA: That was the closest book to my left hand (well, maybe; there are two shelves full on my left, and the middle sections of these two shelves are roughly equidistant from my hand; but the book I picked is the one my hand fell on). The closest book to my right hand gives:

"Out jumped the goblins, big goblins, great ugly-looking goblins, lots of goblins, before you could say rocks and blocks."

Yes, it's "The Hobbit" - this copy is on the top of my "To list on eBay" pile.

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Um. Neither of my nearest books has a page 56. One starts at page 539 and the other has plates without running numbers or text.

[solvarg-raven.livejournal.com]

nearest book to right is a PONS Norwegian dictionary, so no proper sentence there. The fifth word is: dis, en: Dunst, m. XD
Closest one to the left is Robin Hobb's Assassin's Quest: "I was free of both of them now." Wow. LOL I love doing totally pointless things that keep me from considering the uni workload :)