I am not making this up

[rachelmanija]

Via vass:

Find the nearest book to you, turn to page 45, and read the first sentence: this describes your sex life in 2018.

There was a violent hammering at the main gate. (Power of Three, Diana Wynne Jones.)

I'm not sure whether to be excited or alarmed.

Comments

[genarti]

Goodness gracious!

Mine is... well, the nearest book is something on my kobo, but since I'm always reading multiple books on that I'm never sure what to pick. Next nearest is an entire bookshelf, so I'll go with the one on top of the Books Generally In Progress stack:

"À qui ne connaît pas l'appétit, la première morsure de la faim est à la fois une souffrance et une illumination." (Slightly loose translation: "For one who's never known appetite, the first bite of hunger is at once suffering and enlightenment." L'élégance du hérisson (The Elegance of the Hedgehog) by Muriel Barbery.) Goodness. Out of context, it does read rather as if it ought to be accompanied by waggling eyebrows!

[rachelmanija]

I find it hard to believe that's NOT supposed to be about sex!