accidental lust
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text in your blog along with these instructions.
My first grab (eyes shut, hand reaching) resulted in this:
"There is a languor I associate with being in love, and having satisfying sex."
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Alice Walker
But wait - I have new audience neuroses. Better find something a little more, um, ordinary than that. No peeking, next grab, different part of a different shelf:
"I also started getting laid with some regularity."
Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
Again, another shelf, another grab:
"We were beyond displays of shyness."
Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto
The chances of picking three such sentences in a row are infinitesimal. Some days I'm pretty sure God has a sense of humor.
Comments
I love coincidences.Since I don't have a blog anymore:
"This judgment I have of you, that you will not be corrupted..." Elizabeth quoted in The Life of Elizabeth, Alison Weir.
"Here and there figures spotted the twilight, turning ashen faces to her..." Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (FABULOUS NOVEL btw)
"As to th'Eternal often in anguishes" That's Mary Sidney Herbert's Psalm 74 Ut Quid, Deus and poetry's not too fair in this sorta thing but I have too much poetry to pick around it. I'm not sure how that happened to a novel person like me.
You sexpot, you.
Posted by: Michelle | April 16, 2004 11:07 PM
1. "After sinking into Okeanos, it was supposed that he took ship and sailed during hte night round to the east, so as to be ready to begin a new day." From the office reference bookshelf.
2. "The danger of anti-essentialism is that is switches straight from determinism and reductionism to voluntarism." From the dissertation bookshelf.
Dammit. This is embarassing.
Going into the living room and grabbing the nearest books:
3. "Hey, wait!" (Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood)
OK, getting better.
4. "Between the end of the concert and the first piece I found the name and the route." ( Julio Cortazar, The Distances)
Better still.
5. "Personally, I just want to create a cozy little outpost for me and my family." (Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
No wonder I can't get laid.
Posted by: Mike | April 17, 2004 1:38 AM
PS K I never got around to Traveling Mercies b/c I thought you'd been disappointed in that w/Lamott. I loved Operating Instructions and recommended it to all my friends w/babies but I don't think anyone got it.
I misunderstood that entry's directions and thought I was to pull three books. Guess I made that part up. ;) Truth is the latin dictionary was the first thing I saw so I comprised from the get-go. ;)
Posted by: Michelle | April 17, 2004 11:54 PM
compromised!
Posted by: michelle | April 17, 2004 11:54 PM
Actually, "Traveling Mercies" is the only Lamott that holds up for me. I never liked "Bird by Bird," and recently re-read "Operating Instructions" and didn't like it much at all. Too bad.
Posted by: Krista | April 18, 2004 12:09 AM
The god in question would be Eros, I take it.
Posted by: qB | April 18, 2004 10:10 AM
man, I really misremembered (as G used to say).
Posted by: michelle | April 18, 2004 10:24 PM