Tyler Coates
Grab the book closest to you. Go to page 56. Find the 5th sentence. Write that sentence in the text box.

“Bits of it made him laugh, but he couldn’t seem to keep track of the broader premise, or plot (was there a premise, or plot?).”

Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children

(Sorry, I’m a sucker for this shit.)

Posted 7 months ago
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    (side note: this actually sounds like one of the songs the opening band for the Decemberists sang, about stairs upon...
  181. melissawalker reblogged this from borednyc and added:
    The strained facial expression, the exaggerated attempts...maintain control over bodily...
  182. phonecall reblogged this from spaceships and added:
    Does everyone have a great novel closest to them? Does nobody have a programming book instead? I have one and there is...
  183. iseebi reblogged this from destin and added:
    “when it is dry, cover the picture with clear acrylic as a protective coating.”...365...
  184. sonyamcneil reblogged this from iveneverheardofyou and added:
    Lydia are three billion years gone, the gunslinger told them; they have become Old Star and Old Mother, the north and...
  185. adeandabet reblogged this from dazzlingdelta and added:
    ”And slowly, inexorably, the barriers are falling.” - The End of Food by Paul Roberts
  186. closertotheocean reblogged this from iveneverheardofyou and added:
    fun i’m doing it again: “The equations are presented side by side in order to throw you off the scent.” -from The...
  187. borednyc reblogged this from iveneverheardofyou and added:
    “He is going to come to my house...walk out with my girl and he thinks this poor n*** just...
  188. iveneverheardofyou reblogged this from idiosyncratic and added:
    Four CROWS (they look more like mynas or parrots than real crows: i.e., they’re fake crows) perch on a bough, discussing...
  189. barefootvinyl reblogged this from csmccann and added:
    “Get away,” -Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  190. idiosyncratic reblogged this from pilnick and added:
    “You tell those people I’m sick; sick of being comfortable” -Jazz Country
  191. schizocentral reblogged this from jugofwisdom-deactivated20090223 and added:
    The Spelling Bee buzzed dangerously in...out of range of the Humbug’s wildly swinging cane...
  192. destin reblogged this from bthny and added:
    “Hinges or latches...either side for easy cleaning and service.” hahaha from Lithonia...
  193. lacienegajustsmiled reblogged this from msbojangles and added:
    With brown wood signs sawed jagged at the ends,
  194. csmccann reblogged this from she-thinks and added:
    “Whatever you are giving your energy to is already pulsing an Energy vibration.” — Ask and It Is Given, Esther and Jerry...
  195. msbojangles reblogged this from missworld and added:
    few post-dawn moments...this particular Saturday,...well be...
  196. monsterxero reblogged this from pilnick and added:
    “The woman stayed with us for a week, and while I hated her to leave, I sort of loved watching her go.” David Sedaris,...
  197. vb reblogged this from bluenemesis and added:
    “And that excuse of “it’s a great role, I wanted to bring something new to it” is also unabashed bullshit.” (In...
  198. applebottom reblogged this from misterpeace and added:
    “It’s pretty bold, all right. Forward, even.” - The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, Ann Packer
  199. missworld reblogged this from chicklit and added:
    “‘For a while, I’ll let it make you strong/ make your heart lion,’ the poet Ai writes in “Woman to Man,” as she proffers...
  200. she-thinks reblogged this from webcat and added:
    I said it looked to me like all the signs was about bad luck, and so I asked him if there warn’t any good-luck signs....
  201. anotherdamnartist reblogged this from reckon and added:
    kangaroo is also know as a marsupial, a word derived from...pouch. Tricks and Traditions...
  202. fussy reblogged this from inothernews and added:
    “Which reminds me, Pris, what were those old dry beets doing in...armchair?” -Jitterbug...
  203. notbeingserious reblogged this from switchblades and added:
    “Part of my contract was that they had to let me do what I wanted.” - Dave Brubeck from Songwriters on Songwriting by...
  204. lebird reblogged this from chopan and added:
    “They talked volubly and with little reserve.” - Dubliners, James Joyce
  205. misterpeace reblogged this from thesophie and added:
    fever gathered within him and led him to rove alone in the evening along the quiet avenue.”
  206. shelbysmith reblogged this from katherine and added:
    “Again we shut his mouth, but now we actualy wedged his lower and uper teeth together until they interlocked” -Studs...
  207. eazyemerencz reblogged this from tripletwo
  208. bluenemesis reblogged this from thesophie and added:
    The highest prime number coalesced quietly in...corner and hid itself away for ever.
  209. sinkships reblogged this from amyyy and added:
    But to my Gaveston: shall I never see,/Never behold thee now? .. .. .. (bloody drama students)
  210. kittykittybangbang reblogged this from msbadkittie and added:
    “She wasn’t violently distasteful like Mickey Spillane.”...World of Agatha Christie:The...
  211. crowth reblogged this from iainbroome and added:
    ‘All right then, up, you weakling,’ said the information officer. Not the most interesting sentence in Kafka’s The...
  212. lifeonholidae reblogged this from azspot and added:
    He fumbled with the yellow pull strings and opened it.
  213. spaceships reblogged this from omnialx and added:
    He advocated their extermination. - Tod Wodicka, All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things...
  214. whoissofad reblogged this from thesophie and added:
    “I was exhilirated by love and...extreme sugar rush,but also felt
  215. iainbroome reblogged this from thesophie and added:
    Rather than risk misdirecting...reader, be clear. From the exciting world of ‘Perfect...
  216. thesophie reblogged this from oomb and added:
    “You know, if you were as tall as you were stupid,...hole through your head.”
  217. ex2 reblogged this from chicklit and added:
    “My dear child, what is this—this about your sister’s engagement?” said Mrs. Cadwallader Middlemarch, George Eliot....
  218. osmium reblogged this from tylercoates and added:
    10 Dunghill, manure pile; compost heap; refuse heap It’s...Concise Roget’s International...
  219. yaldabaoth reblogged this from missdelphine and added:
    “He is to resist the vulgar barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious...
  220. drshutterbug reblogged this from katherine and added:
    “Once leukocytes enter...extravascular connective tissue, they are able to adhere to
  221. hivelessmind reblogged this from moosecakes and added:
    I’d said ’’Well’’ three times now, and it only seemed fair that I continue to fish for conversation like any man would...
  222. moosecakes reblogged this from ltwp and added:
    Cigarettes are brought round, stacked in...large lacquer box like artillery shells in a...
  223. lelooshka reblogged this from medusenerveuse and added:
    ‘In practice, most people need do this only a few times.’
  224. roads2roam reblogged this from aseablackwithink and added:
    “Some cameras have precise crystal control over a wide range of speeds.” ~The Filmmaker’s Handbook, Stevn Ascher and...
  225. janaki reblogged this from veganista-deactivated20090127-d and added:
    “Since one break point resides in...32 kb intron 22 and
  226. struckbell reblogged this from thisbeautifulmess and added:
    Meditation: “I am the bodhi-mandala, the seed possibility erupting.” -Spilsbury and Bryner “The Mayan Oracle”
  227. counterforce reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
    “I took the camera and pointed it at my father, and we saw his amused smile jump right up onto the screen.” From I Am A...
  228. callmecash reblogged this from cassandralee and added:
    From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, mine reads:...__________ Credits:...
  229. karri reblogged this from chopan and added:
    Ensimmäisessä laissa luetelluista kohteista on kiinteistön hankinta ja rakentaminen.
  230. pema reblogged this from missdelphine and added:
    everybodycares:chelseamoylan:markn:walpaper:nechamaelle:tylercoates: “Bits of it made him laugh, but he couldn’t seem to...
  231. mesunzeri reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
    “It is clear that Godard is no realist; in La Chinoise he specifically repudiates the realist aesthetic (of Bazin and...
  232. lapetitemort reblogged this from somethingmeaningful and added:
    “Don’t smile crooked, honey,” her mom said. (Who Killed Peggy Sue? – Eileen Goudge)
  233. dietcock reblogged this from cajunboy
  234. oh-serendipity reblogged this from amyyy and added:
    “The highest prime number coalesced quietly in...corner and hid itself away
  235. katherine reblogged this from missdelphine and added:
    “She watched him pedal away, saw his broad, thick-shouldered figure disappear around
  236. ivegotcrayons reblogged this from romaine and added:
    “He became obsessed with collecting bottle caps.” — “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” by Alice...
  237. exclamation reblogged this from semisetadrift and added:
    “A wager? In a way, I suppose.” The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
  238. isay reblogged this from caz and added:
    When people ask me “How long it will take?”, I ask them, “How long is a piece of string” - Sorted by Lisanne Oliver....
  239. snowtrooper5 reblogged this from letomoon and added:
    And here I am without a proper book. Damn. The only things near by are a Hotel Guide, Maps, and probably the...
  240. chopan reblogged this from angad and added:
    Hombres y mujeres que habían estado separados unos de otros por las barreras de las clases, ahora rezaban y cataban...
  241. toohot2 reblogged this from sdot and added:
    It’s the Universe communicating with you on the receiving frequency. (The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
  242. sweetseaurchinsushi reblogged this from forthebooks and added:
    “Da paint a bra on you.”
  243. caz reblogged this from suitep and added:
    “When this happens - when liberty is cited in the defense of a company’s decision to dump toxins in our rivers, or when...
  244. emphasissoul reblogged this from brantleyjones and added:
    A poor man cannot obtain money otherwise.
  245. pwnator reblogged this from lhh2 and added:
    “There are certain special products which occur so frequently in algebra that they have been classified.” - from my math...
  246. letomoon reblogged this from heavysigh and added:
    “上記のSELECT文を実行した結果は次のようになります。” 朝井 淳, SQL ポケットリファレンス
  247. 2arrs2ells reblogged this from omnialx and added:
    Precisely because the male invests so much in rearing offspring he is keen to guarantee his paternity and, in the...
  248. avalentine reblogged this from itsnotovertonight and added:
    “Dear Zooey, I’ve just finished decoding a long letter that came from Mother this morning, all about you and General...
  249. seifestattgel reblogged this from bunkercomplex and added:
    Dans les rues, chez les fournisseurs, il cherchait toutes les sympathies. Albert Camus, La peste
  250. jesuislucadimarie reblogged this from lhh2 and added:
    Biggity - Adj Conceted. - the offical scrabble dictonary LMAO
  251. allow reblogged this from stolencamera and added:
    When there were three bullets in
  252. hungryfrog reblogged this from piercethenight and added:
    ” 2 juin 2004, Royal Society, Londres — Finn-Erik, Stig et petite Line sont rentrées en Norvège après un bon week-end de...
  253. guardocamino reblogged this from moffs and added:
    There’s a Wocket in my Pocket, by Dr. Seuss has no 56th page.
  254. piercethenight reblogged this from bthny
  255. brantleyjones reblogged this from maxforfree and added:
    teaching could only consist...bringing before consciousness, by help
  256. maxchoong reblogged this from azspot and added:
    Montesquieu advocated the seperation of powers...tylercoates, azspot)
  257. forthebooks reblogged this from willteeyang and added:
    The astronomer may speak to you...his understanding
  258. antitrance reblogged this from twothirty and added:
    “Zane Grey was one of his heroes: he was damned if he was going to stand any nonsense.” The Third Man by Graham Greene
  259. pdl2h reblogged this from azspot and added:
    The pound sterling is worth about $1.50 on foreign exchange markets.
  260. maxforfree reblogged this from lauram and added:
    text by Pearl (1988) was...first in AI to cover probability and utility theory in depth;...
  261. azspot reblogged this from anjum and added:
    If we have been issued a patent, won’t that stop Microsoft
  262. violation reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
    man looked at Chigurh’s eyes for the first time. - Cormac McCarthy,...Country For Old Men
  263. savvymac reblogged this from betelnut and added:
    “Hector - surely you thought when you stripped Patroclus’ armor...be safe!” From
  264. lauram reblogged this from bthny and added:
    The previous year, at the age of 35, Martin Luther King Jr. had become the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace...
  265. romaine reblogged this from trickytrigger and added:
    But it is important not to spoil them or fuss over them too much, or they will become impossible to handle andmake their...
  266. willteeyang reblogged this from chickenpox and added:
    His powers of sweating were extraordinary.
  267. dietjay reblogged this from twrecks and added:
    “The star went out with a bang, ejecting its contents into space.” Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins, The Five...
  268. trickytrigger reblogged this from yourpalmal and added:
    “‘What’s this about a new way? There’s been some very large talk behind my sleeping back and no error. Let me slooshy...
  269. suitep reblogged this from markyb and added:
    This is the oldest meme on the internets, but I’m doing it because the closest book to me really is ‘Fear and Loathing...
  270. missdelphine reblogged this from everybodycares-deactivated20090 and added:
    “He patted me on the head firmly, then turned and left.” Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
  271. yellowhat reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
    Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (illustrations by Miss Carson Ellis!) “These doorways had no doors in...
  272. carolyns reblogged this from twistmac and added:
    We have evidence for different species of barley and wheat, flax, various fruits (such as watermelon and dates), and...
  273. youdontgetit-doyou reblogged this from energyface and added:
    Much of what he had learned remained to be formulated even in his own mind, and had still to be crystalized into the...
  274. 3isagoodnumber reblogged this from snickerdoodle and added:
    Back in bed, I remembered an old sermon of Veronica’s in which she had said that when we are with other people, they...
  275. absurdfroufrou reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
    From a Japanese how-to...on cozy handbags and pouches, 「ふかふかバッグ＆ポーチ」. My sister asked
  276. yourpalmal reblogged this from oomb and added:
    This tradition was reinforced...society, and inevitably reflected in
  277. arshdeep reblogged this from bunkercomplex
  278. gimmick reblogged this from tylercoates and added:
    “In the whole entire world, you are the only person, the only person I love or have ever loved. And I love you terribly....
  279. vagarious reblogged this from thisbeautifulmess and added:
    ” “Dorian Gray is engaged to be married,” said Lord Henry, watching him as he spoke. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of...
  280. semisetadrift reblogged this from vaughnshirley and added:
    “In spite of its extreme beauty, this face, not drawn but sculpted in something smooth and friable, that is, at once...
  281. foolishgirrl reblogged this from thewayoftheworld and added:
    “What if he had followed some toothsome filly home to her Georgian house...Hampstead, only...
  282. reginewilldoodle reblogged this from lhh2 and added:
    ”He was a great man.” Uncle Tom or A New Negro? -Rebecca Carroll
  283. dominilucy reblogged this from moonriverdahling and added:
    “Anyone can sit there if there are no old people around” - New Horizon English Course 3
  284. pepito reblogged this from mimilachula-deactivated20090112 and added:
    “It wasnt that he was greedy, but he had just come to feel entitled to other people’s generosity as he was to so much...
  285. franziska reblogged this from prolefeed and added:
    on the first Trailways bus out...that was that.” (from »Manhattan Noir«)
  286. markyb reblogged this from energyface and added:
    “So she chose the instrument no one else wanted: the tuba.” Good Poems
  287. foolishgirrl reblogged this from lhh2 and added:
    “Kinda like when you watch a gal in a red dress and a wide straw hat goin’ past you down a lane with the trees on both...
  288. oomb reblogged this from turnlizer and added:
    “Look at III: in extremely classic fashion, grief comes from the bowed heads, the expressions of suffering, the hand...
  289. reneelilley reblogged this from everybodycares-deactivated20090 and added:
    “The White-Skins will catch you and eat you.” J.R.R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers
  290. thenelsontwins reblogged this from spiegelman and added:
    This is totally cheesy, but I’m game. He calmly insisted on sleeping there in their home that way that night; no hotel:...
  291. pilnick reblogged this from tylercoates and added:
    “There are certain types...people who, as soon as some undeniable fact is written down,...
  292. jhock reblogged this from spongebobsampants and added:
    It gave me a weird, jumpy feeling in my stomach and I thought suddenly of Scarlett, standing at register eight at...
  293. stolencamera reblogged this from spiegelman and added:
    order of the day,...President Reagan’s fight with...air...
  294. turnlizer reblogged this from tylercoates and added:
    “De Ludmilla, bien sûr.” -Italo Calvino, Si par une nuit d’hiver un voyageur
  295. closertotheocean reblogged this from everybodycares-deactivated20090 and added:
    “He did, he did, he did,” she said, weeping. Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son
  296. omnialx reblogged this from kakelyn and added:
    Marika walked closely beside Seb - as closely as she could without touching. -Kira Salak, The White Mary
  297. psikikpanda reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
    Well that worked well. I grabbed the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and page...is a blank...
  298. spareunderthemat reblogged this from robot-heart
  299. jgomes reblogged this from katietower and added:
    “She’d made a fool of herself, and he’d compounded...matter by being so forgiving, which...
  300. hippybroblogs reblogged this from spongebobsampants and added:
    got any cigs, she said. - handmaid’s tale.
  301. endlessbagofgold reblogged this from bunkercomplex and added:
    “The Boy could feel his eyes, sense him slowly bending near.” Ray Bradbury, The Drummer Boy
  302. lilyb reblogged this from cajunboy and added:
    No one who saw that ad could ever forget it. The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion
  303. vaughnshirley reblogged this from tylercoates and added:
    “Eisenhower’s National Security Council meetings had the timing and grace...Kabuki...