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I have been tagged by Slow Learner in the book meme, so here's what I am doing:

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

The nearest book is one that has been sitting on my end table since I bought it a couple of weeks ago -- I haven't even started it yet!  I've been way too busy with school and teaching and all the strenuous marathon watching of Dexter, my new television obsession.  Anyway, the book is Dave Eggers' What is the What and here are three intriguing sentences:

-- It went in very easily.  I was surprised.  And the SPLA man fell forward silently and that was the end of him. 

What Is the What (Vintage)

Dave Eggers

Well, now I am slightly more inspired to finally start this book!

In other reading news, I have mostly been working on the assignments for my lit students: we are finishing up our Modernism unit now and have read the following:  James Joyce's "The Dead" (one of the best last sentences in all literature, hands down), Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" (major bleh but there was no time for a novel and no good short story in our anthology), Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" (one of the best first sentences in all literature, hands down), Aimé Césaire's "Notebook of my Return to the Native Land" (several of the most disgusting phrases in all literature, hands down), and William Faulkner's "The Bear" (best short story ever?). 

So you can see it has been busy.  I am ready for spring break in a major way.