Rebellion
It looks like everybody’s doing as they’re told, but I ain’t. Instead, I’ll:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Shrug.
- Move on to page 68.
- Find the sixteenth sentence.
- Decide this one is far better.
- Post the text of the sentence in my journal along with these revised instructions.
Here we go:
‘Ford!’ he said, ‘there’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.’