It's a meme...
Grab the book closest to you. Turn to page 123. Look at the fifth sentence. What does it say?
Take, for a single but not a random instance, the example of Denys Winterset, twenty-three years old, Winchester, Oriel College, younger son of a well-to-do doctor and in 1956 ending a first year as assistant district commissioner of police in Bechuanaland.
from "Great Work of Time," in Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction by John Crowley
Grab the book closest to you. Turn to page 123. Look at the fifth sentence. What does it say?
Take, for a single but not a random instance, the example of Denys Winterset, twenty-three years old, Winchester, Oriel College, younger son of a well-to-do doctor and in 1956 ending a first year as assistant district commissioner of police in Bechuanaland.
from "Great Work of Time," in Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction by John Crowley