From PJ.
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences and read them.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Here goes, from Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water:
"Yes. I searched her feet right off and they were stiff. I carried her over to my house."
How's that? Play along if you like.
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3 comments:
Oh, you picked a good one! Unfortunately for me, the books closest to hand were the ones I had to read for Nonfiction last semester. I love James Agee (sort of), but sheesh...
Thanks for playing. :)
I think this was the best yet!
Or maybe both this and Agee.
PJ, you could use them when you become a Famous Writing Teacher and want to give examples of contrasting sentence constructions.
by the way, it IS weird, isn't it?
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