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ganked from [livejournal.com profile] crowyhead - I've done this meme before but it always amuses me and the book is different every time ...

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.

They did. Van had Mayor McCheese and Felix used Smurfette. They skipped around the chat channels until they found one with some familiar handles.

(from "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," by Cory Doctorow, anthologized in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, which is edited by John Joseph Adams and pretty awesome so far though I'm only two stories in.)

Date: 2008-06-11 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greydruid.livejournal.com
My page 123 only HAS five sentences, so I guess I post the first three on the next page.

In My freshman year of college, I lived with a woman. It was 1968, I was eighteen. We slept on a sagging couch in a room I rented off campus.

Date: 2008-06-22 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greydruid.livejournal.com
Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories

Date: 2008-06-24 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greydruid.livejournal.com
The first one is by Samuel R Delaney, who explains that "Coming Out" used to mean something other than what it means today. A few of the early stories are more about that definition. I'm not even halfway through with it.

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