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Came across an idea for The 23/5 Exquisite Corpse over on Incoming Signals. The idea is you grab 6 to 10 books at random off your book shelf, turn to page 23 and copy out the 5th sentence. You then arrange the sentences so that they form a story.

What the hell. I figured I’d give it a shot. The Internet has seemed kind of boring for the past few days anyway. So, here’s what I got

They do alright. They graze the backs of his knees as they bank around his husky columnar body. All that now remained was to fasten up the mouth of the enclosure; and this was readily accomplished by gathering the folds of the material together, and twisting them up very tightly on the inside by means of a kind of stationary tourniquet.

His own reckless curiosity had to take sole responsibility for the fact that he was leaving the building on his way to an unknown destination to meet a group of people who claimed to be in touch with other dimensions. Norway.

But I suppose La Louve was the more ferocious of the two.

“I’m very pleased to hear you say that,” she said, “because I should very much like him to meet you, too.”

They passed a stretch of tall, looming buildings, abandoned and lonely, bounded by a high brick wall.

Finally, my mother drives up in her Mercedes and parks the car in front of La Scala and waits for me.

“Good night,” she said softly. “Wake me at eight, won’t you.”

So, there you go. I’m not sure what it means, but you can now count me among the pantheon of literary dub masters.