Spreading the meme

Closest Book meme
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (sitting on Rose's desk)
And so to page 56:
The front room, we'll use the front room out there for a shop. Gawd knows, there's enough room. It won't hurt us to use some of it for enterprise.
That's a good word that sounds weak on your lips, Lester Lamb. Across the corridor, they'll chuck all whatser-name about it..
They're broke, darl. They're poor as us.