Like I Have Time For This?

I got tagged for another meme earlier this week from Audrey via the recently-upgraded (and what a tizzy it’s been!) Well Trained Mind message boards.

This one’s a book meme. Short and sweet. The rules are:

Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people and ask them to do the same (unless you’re Doc, and unless you don’t want to, that is.)

So, the book nearest to me at the moment just happens to be Foucalt’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. (Eco also wrote The Name of the Rose, a book which was later made into a movie starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater.)

From after the 5th sentence on page 123:

And the paper says they came to a great hall with a fine fireplace and a dry well in the center. They tied a stone to a rope, lowered it, and found that the well was eleven meters deep. They went back a week later with stronger ropes, and two companions lowered Ingolf into the well, where he discovered a big room with stone walls, ten meters square and five meters high.

A secret room at the bottom of a dry well that you can only get to from inside someone’s fireplace. Pretty cool. That’s what I’ll be reading this weekend.

I’d tell you how it all turns out, but then you might not read it for yourself.

Many thanks to Audrey for the tag. And I’m gonna tag Maria, Karisma, Wendy, Heather, and Kitten. And anyone else who’s up for it. Except for Doc, that is. She’s, like, really busy right now.