h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The rules for this game are relatively simple -
i) Pick the nearest book near you at this time
ii)Turn to the 55th page
iii)Find the 4th sentence and post it here

Starting with:

"A perspective has to be a perspective OF something"

"Perhaps he thought this would fool the Sandseeds to send their warriors in the wrong direction."

Hiccups - So if you find some flint tools in a ploughed field, or stone axes in the Sahara, the spot automatically becomes a site.

mine doesn't have a fourth sentance on page 55 account of the picture, which at first glance looks like a Roman with his arms up a goats bum, but I think he is milking her from behind

"Je vais vous décrire un certain nombre de situations."

("I'm going to describe a number of situations")

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.


Geggs

Fitz pushed the coin towards the man with a fingertip. Having no idea what it was worth he added, "And soup?"

For the worst things, messengers went twenty miles to the nearest Ranger barracks or one waited for the bimonthly visit of the current territorial circuit judge.

'Is it magic?' said one of the theives, and was quickly hushed.

- nothing - there are pictures and only three explanatory sentences.

"If your release is interesting, but the journalist wants more, they have your contact details to get in touch.

Unfortunately the closest book to me is called "Is This My Nose?" and runs to the princely total of eight pages. A random page gives us this gem:

"Can you fid your eyes, eyes, eyes?"

'Boomerangs do even more increased damaged'

from my "The Great Leeds Pub Crawl"

"And, in a similar phenomenon to The Wetherspoon's effect, this pulls in those eager to drink proper cask beer, and those who will drink anything, just so long as it's cheap."

"These endemic toads have a long, curved snout and horned protuberances above the eyes."

This is from a travel guide to Puerto Rico and not a natural history book.

PP.

"En revanche, la région se démarque nettement par une faible proportion de résidences secondaires".
("on the contrary, the area has a notably low proportion of holiday homes").

From the "Tables of Economy in Champagne-Ardenne", 2007 edition.
A good read if you need to go to sleep in a record time.

The closest book to me, 'The Hare With Amber Eyes', has a Croatian postcard marking my place................ at page 55!

The fourth sentence reads:

"These shops were known as places for encounters, popular sites for rendezvous for beau-monde lovers - rendez-vous de couples adultères, like Charles and Louise."

I wonder what to make of that coincidence...

Cromwell was standing at the king's shoulder.
The book...The Gentry, Stories of The English

Memo: Holds up to 64,000 characters of information- That's almost 18 pages of text.

Access 2007 for dummies

I don't want to sound too pedantic, but are we supposed to take the 4th sentence from the 55th page (as stated) or page 55? Also, is it the 4th complete sentence, or does a partial, unfinished, sentence count as no 1?

Anyway... sentence 4 on p55 of my book reads: "What you expect?" which actually sounds like quite a fitting answer to the original question.

The book is 'Lionel Asbo' by Martin Amis