Meme

Gacked from xzombiexkittenx and arabwel

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

By a somewhat modified experiment the force of attraction between two oppositely electrified bodies may be proved to vary inversely as the square of the distance between them.

The book was called Electrical Machines,(I was next to a bookcase), and the chapter Frictional Electricity.  Which has me grinning like crazy, because my mind went straight to the gutter and threw a party. 

Here's another quote: As bodies become pointed, the electricity accumulates more and more at the pointed end, until the density becomes so great that the electricity is discharged.