Sunday: Extract 7

Sorry, no Extract 7. I missed the midnight deadline, plus I am getting bored of this game now. Before you jump in and point out that Extracts 2 to 4 also appear to have been published a day late, allow me to explain.

Saturday: Extract 6

Extract 6 is from Conversation:

OK, enjoy Tokyo.

—Random stranger in Aoyama, Tokyo

This is the sixth of seven posts in the Extracts series. In the comments section you can, if you want, post extracts from what you have read/heard today.

Friday: Extract 5

Extract 5 is from the internets:

“Everyone,” she repeated through slightly clenched teeth, “has to be counted.”

—Globe and Mail, Census in India

This is the fifth of seven posts in the Extracts series. In the comments section you can, if you want, post extracts from what you have read/heard today.

Thursday: Extract 4

Extract 4 is from Packaging:

With a great breakfast inside us, we feel we can do just about anything: change the nation’s eating habits, revolutionise farming, and look sexy while line dancing.

—Rude Health Daily Oats Porridge package

This is the fourth of seven posts in the Extracts series. In the comments section you can, if you want, post extracts from what you have read/heard today.

Wednesday: Extract 3

Extract 3 is from Work Document:

Although financial markets have shown some degree of stabilization and economic recovery has continued in 2010, the recovery has been fragile and uncertainty about future developments of the market remains.

—Base Prospectus for a €30bn EMTN Programme

This is the third of seven posts in the Extracts series. In the comments section you can, if you want, post extracts from what you have read/heard today.

Tuesday: Extract 2

Extract 2 is from Public Sign:

Please refrain from smoking in this area as the children can see and smell you.

—The Little Unicorn Childcare Centre, Canary Wharf

This is the second of seven posts in the Extracts series. In the comments section you can, if you want, post extracts from what you have read/heard today.

Monday: Extract 1

This is the first of seven posts in the Extracts series. Every day, I will post a one-sentence extract from something I have read or heard in the course of that day.

The extracts will be from different sources. I will choose them at random, so they will not necessarily be intelligent, memorable, informative or funny. Even by the consistently puerile standards of this blog, this is an exercise in puerility. In the comments section you can, if you want, post extracts from what you have read/heard today.

Extract 1 is from Book (Fiction):

The municipal stadium was deserted—not a single living dead to be seen.

—Nicolas Dickner, Apocalypse for Beginners