Booking Through Thursday 04.10.08

• Pick up the nearest book. (I’m sure you must have one nearby.)
• Turn to page 123.
• What is the first sentence on the page?
• The last sentence on the page?
• Now . . . connect them together….
  (And no, you may not transcribe the entire page of the book–that’s cheating!)

Something boring and horrible: Death, that rapist, who comes in and walks around, and will not say what it is he wants, until he takes it. There was a path, I thought — I really thought that there must be a path — and Liam had wandered off it, and I wasn’t going out there to look for him, not this time.

I didn’t come up with a story for in-between the sentences as I thought these two were interesting enough just to stand on their own merits.

From The Gathering by Anne Enright