time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so

The following book meme was borrowed from eldritchhobbit. As I'm sitting at my desk which has at least twenty books, I closed my eyes and picked out one at random. Really!

Here are the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Pass this on to your friends!

"Bachmann was sitting on her bed, barefoot and in a nightshirt, with a plaid blanket humped over his shoulders. He was drumming with two fingers on the marble top of the night table, while using his other hand to make dots on a sheet of music paper with an indelible pencil. So absorbed was he that he did not notice the door open."
-Vladimir Nabokov, "Bachmann" from The Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

The next meme I stole from drake57

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