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tagrynfrom liralen:
Book Meme:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
(from The Day The Earth Caved In, by Joan Quiqley, describing an inspection team looking for black damp)
Book Meme:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
...[In the kitchen, where they knew] they had plenty of oxygen, they lit a grey steel safety lantern the size of a tennis ball can, with a glass shield surrounding the flame. Each time, the lamp choked in the basement, near the furnace.
This time, though, on June 11, the lantern sputtered halfway down Marion Laughlin's cellar steps, about five feet from the landing.
(from The Day The Earth Caved In, by Joan Quiqley, describing an inspection team looking for black damp)
