Speaking of Late: So I also missed out on this trend. The one where you grab the closest book, open up to page 23 and post the fifth sentence in your Blog. This is hard. I think I am equidistant my entire bookshelf, but I shall see.

Ah. Two books sit nearer me on top of each other. The first:

"So you can imagine how astonished I was when I prowled through a free carnival exhibit and saw all those fetuses of humans and cats and dogs, displayed in labeled jars."

The second:

"Because you couldn't always tell from the surface, thought Marin."

The first is from Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury, and the second is from the anthology Spectrum 5, edited by Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest, from a story called "Student Body" by FL Wallace.