Page 23

Keith told me to:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 23.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

From Time out of Joint by Philip K. Dick:

“‘What about this?’ Bill said.”

25 Responses to “Page 23”


  1. 1 Tom

    This is from Rifts by Palladium Books (Kevin Siembieda)

    “Lastly, the character gets a certain number of secondary skills.”

  2. 2 Martin

    Bassam Tibi: Conflict and War in the Middle East – From Interstate War to New Security:

    “However, since decolonisation this concept of regionalism has been largely transferred to the ‘new states’ and will be discussed further in the following section.”

  3. 3 Stew

    Although their owners and managers might not know yet, 99.9% of all websites are obsolete

    From Zeldman’s book, Designing with web standards

  4. 4 Sherlock

    “Each class is stored in a separate class file.”

    From O’Reilly’s Learning Java by Patric Niemeyer & Jonathan Knudsen

  5. 5 Kevin Francis

    I trackbacked … but it’s broken somehow … so here my comment is:
    From Frank Herbert’s Dune (which I am re-reading, again):

    “How noble,” the Reverend Mother sneered.

  6. 6 Nis Sarup

    ‘Professor Bose, I presume?’

    Free one-gig email addy to whoever guesses what book that quote is from ;)

  7. 7 Jeffrey J. Hoover

    Posted mine in my blog. :-)

  8. 8 brooks

    “What about this?’ Bill said.” is two sentences.

  9. 9 Joen

    From “The Light of Other Days” by Arthur C. Clarke:

  10. 10 Joen

    Argh, lemme quote that again:
    From “The Light of Other Days” by Arthur C. Clarke:

    ‘And we haven’t reached the end of our journey yet. Hang onto your drinks, folks.’

  11. 11 e*

    “Nobody here on the planet seems aware of this strange, powerful taboo, that we all walk about carefully averting our faces, this way and that, lest ouf eyes be blasted forever.”

    From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

  12. 12 Mike

    “Others were self-improvers, young men who had found themselves adrift after high school, or in trouble with drugs, booze, the law, or all three.”

    From ‘Black Hawk Down’, by Mark Bowden.

  13. 13 Bernd

    “Professor Bose, I presume?” Dudley managed not to stroke his own OCtattoo. “Uh, yes”

    Nis, 1 gig for “Pandora’s Star”?

  14. 14 Nis Sarup

    Damn! Too easy ;)
    Mail me if you want a new email address at one of my many (read: two and a half) domains :)

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