No, that’s not a typo. This is something going around the Ubuntu RSS feeds. It’s kind of a game with very simple rules:
-Grab the nearest book.
-Open it to page 56.
-Find the fifth sentence.
-Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
-Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
OK, here’s mine:
Now both of those have been torn down, and some new brick buildings – not brilliant architecturally, but certainly an improvement on the gas station – have been erected in their place.
Even though you don’t have to tell what book it comes from, I got mine from neither here nor there by Bill Bryson.
