Anyone who has ever spent more than a week on a social media site (which used to mean one of several places, but now pretty much means Facebook) has encountered the Page-56-Line-5 Game.
The game goes like this:
Open the book closest to you (not your favorite!) to page 56. Copy line 5 from that page as your status, and explain the rules in a comment. No cheating!
Typically this results in a forgettable, unidentifiable line even in the most well-written and easily recognizable work. But, the other day luck was with me when the 56-5 Game reared its hackneyed head.
mageira /muh JY ruh/ n • A woman’s sublimation of sexual desire through cooking.
, by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea.
Sometimes, overheard snippets of conversation create miniature stories of their own, revealing character and family dynamics as clearly as a novel, and much more succinctly.