Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Fifth Sentence
Posted on April 17, 2004 in Memes
I picked up this meme from maria:
- 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.
They had art contests on my front walk, the point being to see whether a realistic rendition of the male sex organ could be made to span the full sweep from sidewalk to front door.
Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson
I attempted to trace this back. It seems to have originated with Tabouli who originally had you “turn to page 18, find line 4, Write down what it says”. He/she got it from someone else, but reveals not who. It achieved its present form when Elkins mutated it.
