I have, in turn, caught the virus from
jophan. It goes:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
...along with these instructions.
Swedish book: Ernst Fridolf köpte en sidenschalett för 1,25 och jag en s.k. bild att sätta på spegeln under den pighimmel jag förmodade vara draperad över den enkla byrån.
English book: A DJ at WKST in Cleveland, he was asked to play black artists' cuts by a record retailer who'd noticed white kids buying R&B and thought he'd sniffed out a new way to make extra bucks.
French book: JE NE SAIS PAS FAIRE DE VRAIES PRÉDICTIONS!
[It so happens that I have three books in different languages beside the computer, so I'm taking all three. This was not part of the original instructions, it seems.]
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal...
...along with these instructions.
Swedish book: Ernst Fridolf köpte en sidenschalett för 1,25 och jag en s.k. bild att sätta på spegeln under den pighimmel jag förmodade vara draperad över den enkla byrån.
English book: A DJ at WKST in Cleveland, he was asked to play black artists' cuts by a record retailer who'd noticed white kids buying R&B and thought he'd sniffed out a new way to make extra bucks.
French book: JE NE SAIS PAS FAIRE DE VRAIES PRÉDICTIONS!
[It so happens that I have three books in different languages beside the computer, so I'm taking all three. This was not part of the original instructions, it seems.]
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No, it wasn't. The book that was closest to me was in Swedish, which is a bit boring for all non-suecophones out there, so I added the next closest book, which was in English. If that book had been the closest one, I wouldn't have added the Swedish one.