I came upon this first on Assistant Blog. It seems to me a worthwhile thing, though I'd find it hard to explain why
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the “coolest” book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Beyond it, a pane of clinical whiteness, lay another door leading to an iron fire-escape—for the house had been designed around a central well so that its bathrooms and kitchens could be connected by a cobweb of iron staircases such as span the engine room of a ship
Lawrence Durrell
The Alexandria Quartet
Faber, 1962
