...I finally capitulated to the Sandmonkey ('cause he's so charming and - well, 'cause it's an easy meme).

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence
3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog
4. Name of the book and the author
5. Tag three people

"Francis was doing most of the talking. He was a meagre, excitable man, and as brown as a cigar-leaf, being the son of a South Indian woman; Samuel, whose mother had been a Karen, was pale yellow with dull red hair. Both were dressed in shabby drill suits, with vast topis beneath which their slender bodies looked like the stalks of toadstools."

Burmese Days, by George Orwell

Tagged: Aya, Rami and Liza
Update: also, my pregnant sister.