Okay, Jono, I’ll play along. I will say that the first book I picked up was in Arabic, so I put it back down. This was the second book in the pile.

Here is how the game is played, followed by my entry.

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

“When this happens–when liberty is cited in the defense of a company’s decision to dump toxins in our rivers, or when our collective interest is in building an upscale new mall is used to justify the destruction of somebody’s home–we depend on the strength of our countervailing values to temper our judgment and hold such excesses in check.” -The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama.