Literary Chain Letter, Ad Nauseum

Extremely late to the party. (Via Golden Rule Jones).

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

"By now this one too had come to detest plots and to deplore the requirement of coping with their contrived complications." Joseph Heller, Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man