"No matter what the object or event is, whether it is a star, a swallow, a Kwakiutl, a 'psychological phenomenon' the layman who confronts it does not confront it as a sovereign person, as Crusoe confronts a seashell he finds it on the beach."

Walker Percy in The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, And What One Has to Do With the Other.

Rules:
* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write this sentence - either here or on your blog.
* Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence.
* Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest.

Gary Duke