From ❦curmudgeon:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Wilde scuffed the surface of the canal-bank path—it had changed from trodden dust to a strip of fused sand which broadened and merged with the street ahead, the permanent way made from the same material as if the finger of a god had drawn the lines from space—and waited for the machine to reply.

From The Stone Canal by Ken MacLeod (charming fellow).