I've been tagged by The Anchoress on this clever little meme.
Karen spells out the rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
OK. It just so turns out that I am in a very literary mood these days and have been scouring patiently to get some new materials. My latest purchase however is an audiobook - Victor Davis Hanson's Mexifornia. But just last night I picked up an old Martin Amis, Einstein's Monsters, off the shelf to read once again my favorite of his short stories: The Little Puppy That Could. Coincidentally, page 123 is about right in the middle of that very story:
By Monday afternoon they had swelled outlandishly in the belly and sprouted course hair on their backs and buttocks. All three died during the night in speechless horror. On Wednesday it was reported that seven spare husbands who had merely come in contact with the dog's coat had developed cutaneous conditions of incredible virulence; they too, passed away in a frothing nightmare of serpigo and yaws.
The Little Puppy That Could is an allegory about a society at the end of manhood, as you might guess from the term 'spare husbands'.
And now I shall tag five bloggers.
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