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Here's the deal. It's very simple.

One person is the querant, they ask a question.

The next person to come along is the oracle, and they pick a book at random (or using their intuition/gut feeling) from their bookshelf (or hard drive, or E-reader), choose a page and read the first sentence that pops out, and posts it here as the answer. Then they too should ask a question.

I will ask the first question.

Q. How can I expect my career to go in the coming years?

The irony of Switters was that while he loved life and tended to embrace it vigorously, he could not only be finicky but squeamish.

Q: Where have the furry old lobsters gone?

That is absolutely pertinent to my situation.



"When once love fails to establish the perfectly ideal relationship between two individuals, what we are left with is hate. If not hate, it is antipathy."

Q: How can I have more success with women?

"And by sampling a population at different intervals of time, the geneticist can detect and measure any changes in frequency of the alternative chromosome types and genotypes."

Q: Why does nothing rhyme with Orange....

''man you're talkin' like a fool.you mean to tell me that you're gonna sit back and let some old blue-haired woman talk you into being a rabbit?''

Q: what should I do to manage my hectic week?

A: During our lifetime we accumulate a great many hallucinated experiences that cause us to experience much confusion at the time of death. Since these are interdependent phenomena,
when we are old and our four elements absorb, these experiences energize internal chaos.

Q: Which of the world religions is the 'right' one?

A: We agreed that it would have been better to have no cloud at all than the unkind tantalization of those elusive grey phantoms that shied across the sky above us.

(castaway, p96)

Q: What is the best way to cook the top of a fried egg?

Q: What is the best way to cook the top of a fried egg?

A: Jesus answered,
"All of nature, it's forms and creatures are interrelated;
all will be returned to their
original source."

Q. Why do fools fall in love?

Q: What is the best way to cook the top of a fried egg?

A: Jesus answered,
"All of nature, it's forms and creatures are interrelated;
all will be returned to their
original source."

Q. Why do fools fall in love?

Hired Dog! Shoot him to bloody bits with a bang shotgun, bits man spattered walls all brass buttons.

Q: How should I prepare for my exams?

Q: How should I prepare for my exams?

A: For those coming before me,exile had been a dreadful limbo between statelessness and naturalization, a limbo in which one did not tarry in spite of it's mythical light.

Q: Why did the butler do it?

A: The size and structure of the breeding population is another biological factor, and an extremely important one, affecting the evolutionary rate in a changing environment.

Q: How much wood, could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck, could chuck wood?

Q: How much wood, could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck, could chuck wood?

A: Delightful, was it not, how a poet who was also a wit could clothe a thought of that sort in language that was explicit but never smutty?

Q: Come the rapture, can I have your car?

So they dug and dug, like everything; and it got awful dark, and the rain started, and the wind swished and swushed along, and the lightning come brisker and brisker, and the thunder boomed; but them people never took no notice of it, they was so full of this business; and one minute you could see every thing and every face in that big crowd, and the shovelfuls of dirt sailing up out of the grave, and the next second the dark wiped it all out, and you couldn't see nothing at all.

Q: What direction should I go?

Q: What direction should I go?

A: That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-square,
We thought it was the Judgement-day,

Q: Why is Pi such a "Beautiful" number?

Q: Why is Pi such a "Beautiful" number?

A: Popular imagination links the dragon to clouds, to the rain the farmers yearn for, and to great rivers.

Q: Where are those pictures I'm looking for?