Rules of the game:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Turn to page 42
• Find the 2nd sentence
• Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
• Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

#page42

Rules of the game:

• Grab the nearest book.

• Turn to page 42

• Find the 2nd sentence

• Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it

• Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

#Page42

Ok the #page42 exercise is going to make me cry.

I picked up "Losing the Sky" by Andy Lawrence, because it's been sitting on my desk as I slowly force myself to read this book about the environmental crisis happening in orbit, but written 5 years ago before it was really bad. Perfect example of how painful this is:

"Satellite pass within a few km of each other every day."

...it's actually more like every few minutes now.

Brooks, on the other hand, worked with expert subtlety to make the #sonnet her own.

- The Essential #GwendolynBrooks, Introduction

#page42 #poetry

"Unterdessen brannten in den läuternden Flammen der Inquisition auch die Ketzer oder die der Ketzerei Verdächtigten; der Inquisitor Torquemada ließ Bücher auf Scheiterhaufen werfen, der Schwanz des Teufels wurde in allen Ecken und Ritzen vermutet."

#Seite42 #Page42

@phoenix Wirkt eine Kraft längs eines Weges, so wir Arbeit verrichtet. #seite42 #page42

(Tabellenbuch Metall, 35. Auflage1985, Europa Lehrmittel, ISBN 3-8085-1085-4)

Ask and answer questions about key details in the text.

(unexpectedly meta)

(second try because technically the nearest book was a children's book with <42 pages)

Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

#page42 #page42sentence2

@phoenix Scheiße.

#Seite42 #page42 #page42sentence2

So enough with the talk, let's do something #seite42 #page42

»Mit all seinem Wissen könnte er nichts anderes tun als ich, warten und versuchen, am Leben zu bleiben.«

#Seite42 #Page42

@yvan "to the tune of cuckolds all a-row"

#page42 #page42sentence2

Tricky this one, as it's "The Faber book of comic verse" I can't find a year, but I'm guessing 50s.

#page42

" Comfrey juice is like an elixir, smelling something like pickled cabbage, it is central to Charlie's various experiments."

Beyond Received Wisdom: An Anthology of Experiments in Household KNowledge.

https://r-urban-wick.net/blog/experiments-in-household-knowledge-blog/722/beyond-received-wisdom-a-publication

“Brought back a small piece to plant in the garden.”

Derek Jarman, Modern Nature

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Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
#page42

Rules of the game:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Turn to page 42
• Find the 2nd sentence
• Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
• Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

#page42

"The original attempt at redirection matches this output."
bash Cookbook, by Carl Albing and JP Vossen

#page42

"Begin with two circles: C₁ of radius r₁ and C₂ which has half the radius, so 2r₂ = r₁."

(How Round Is Your Circle? Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by J Bryant & C Sangwin, borrowed from Christchurch City Libraries)

#Page42
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Rules of the game:

Grab the nearest book.
Turn to page 42
Find the 2nd sentence
Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

"Another way of discovering self-love is to go love someone else."
The Ethical Slut, 3rd edition,
#page42

@LikeItOrLumpIt “From first course to last bite, Turkey and ham holiday meal packs and brunch options make it easy to celebrate the season.”

#Page42

(Look, all I could find is this holiday meal catalog from Hyvee)

Rules of the game:

• Grab the nearest book.

• Turn to page 42

• Find the 2nd sentence

• Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it

• Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.

#Page42

"She Couldn't."

--Hazel Says No: A Novel by Jessica Berger Gross ©️ 2025 Hanover Square Press

#Page42