a little game to try - courtesy of Chad.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
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.
"Lee looked at him and the brown eyes under their rounded upper lids seemed to open and deepen until they weren't foreign any more, but man's eyes, warm with understanding." - East of Eden, John Steinbeck
"For ordinary books, consisting of simple text in a modest size, typographers and readers both gravitate to proportions ranging from the light, agile 5:9 [1:1.8] to the heavier and more stolid 4:5 [1:1.25]."
ReplyDelete-The Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringhurst
"In particular, when the elements are popped off the stack, they are returned as elements of the Object type." --Data Structures and Algorithms in Java
ReplyDeleteObviously I need to keep more interesting books closer to me.