So-dubbed by Doyce, who should, after all, know …
Oh, my. I wasn’t supposed to say that, was I? Ah, well …
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
Steps came slowly, as if from a long dreary distance.
from A Treasure of Great Mysteries, Vol. 2, ed. Haycraft & Beecroft (Doubleday, Garden City, NJ, 1957). “The Big Sleep,” by Raymond Chandler.
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But you didn’t do as the Illuminati instructed, Dave!
As I have no blog of my own (being too lazy and/or stupid to start one), I’ll post my result here:
“‘He was always immaculately dressed, usually a la Brooks Brothers.’”
Well, I did, but orbitting mind control lasers zorched my HTML code so that it didn’t appear properly. Damn their all-seeing eyes!
Oh! Now your quote is showing up! It wasn’t visible before.
Hmm… Perhaps we serve different Illuminati, and they are at odds. Now, which Master would you serve? Discordian Society? Bavarian Illuminati? UFOs? Ah! Servants of Cthulhu! (Did you ever play Illuminati: New World Order? Love that CCG!)
My result:
“This latter we decided on, so we got out and, the brakes off, all four tolchocked it to the edge of the filthy water that was like treacle mixed with human hole products, then one good horrorshow tolchock and in she went.”
From A Clockwork Orange, A Burgess, (Penguin Books, Middlesex, UK, 1975)
Illuminati Shmoominati
***Dave Does the Blog passed along a virus meme, so I decided to play. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your…
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No. No. No. Must not…Oh okay
Like almost everyone in the entire universe here is that openbooktopageandthenpostwhatisthere. The all mighty instructions: 1. Grab the nearest book….