Silly meme, but I’ll do it anyway since they can be fun. (via Erica and Ed)
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
The book that was sitting on my desk here at home was “Cannery Row”, by John Steinbeck (and a gift from my friend Chris)
The blood spurted from Mack’s lips and ran down his chin. He tried to lick his lips. “Put up your hands, fight you son of a bitch,” Doc cried, and he hit him again and heard the crunch of breaking teeth.
Sweet. Add your own if you’d like.
“My old man would coil that sucker around his fist, set it down on the gateleg, and drape the buckle end of it over the coin slots of the changer. I swear to God, Jack, he could count money by the look of the stack it made, by the heft of a handful of it. So may God pity the poor fuckin’ fool who snitched as much as a dime, he would know.”
From Paco’s Story by Larry Heinemann