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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004 09:11 pm
1. Take five books off your bookshelf.
2. Book #1 -- first sentence
3. Book #2 -- last sentence on page fifty
4. Book #3 -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Book #4 -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Book #5 -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

When the second sun sets into the sea, the shadow of the offshore islands slowly climbs the coastland slopes, ascending the serrated pattern of the trees: one by one, each dark pine and everwillow passes from daytime green to silhouette shadow. It matched his fur. Yesterday had been a misery. She felt better. The dead man's first mask was a hand over his mouth.

Books used: Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea (Diana Marcellas); Black on Black (K. D. Wentworth); The Pillars of the World (Anne Bishop); The Color of Distance (Amy Thomson); A Marvin Bell Reader (Marvin Bell).

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