//Create an array to hold our excerpts.
	var excerpts = new Array(
	                        "Dying wings droned up under those eaves, youngsters and ladies, the men with them too. It kept me awake, that sorrowful sound.",
							"A woman in a polka-dot dress leaned into the deal and clinked a glass against each of Nick's two, then screamed with laughter and stuck her tongue in Dad's ear.",
							"The detour, named \"detour\" because it forced us outside of familiar spaces, pulled us through corduroy farmland and along narrow country roads hushed with summer sun 				laying low across the grain.",
							"My God! Public radio's pornography.", 
							"The cat strolled to my foot, hissed in my face, then pissed on my shoe.",
							"The dogs, who think stinking is fine, are pre-mildew puddles on the floor near my feet.", 
							"Gnats are atrocious, swarming about the face, landing, strutting and performing acrobatic stunts for their hovering friends.", 
							"The pattering of rain on the roof is articulate company.", 
							"\"OOPS!, Harvey. That was a tad fast for the coffee inside my cup as it has leaped out and doused down onto my slacks.\"", 
							"Don't worry a fretful head about anything. Buy more.", 
							"Raining hard again. Becoming tiresome. Water is pooling where I sowed new grass seed on the muddy lawn and floating it into useless heaped ridges around mudpuddle edges.", 
							"Ugly landscape. Ugly country, ugly-ugly everywhere.", 
							"Front yards of shuddering houses littered with rusting hulks of distorted sheet metal. Trash, dead cars.", 
							"He mines money from the other pocket, chasing deep. Meg totals, Percy ciphers. Pockets empty, the suspenders relax.", 
							"The majority of people who live in this rough country do so with resolute equanimity.",
							"Everything has an expiration date. Library books, salad dressing, laughter, and relationships.",
							"\"It's okay, Dad. I don't even feel wet, or cold.\"",
							"The pattering of rain on the roof is articulate company.",
							"\"Caution - Not recommended where personal safety is involved.\"",
							"\"Contraindicated utilization may result in splinters, crushed automobiles, big fires--house and forest--and literature that offends.\"",
							"Raining. Hard. I have lost my good cheer about rain. Grimy brown muck chasing us always, and everything is damp, soaked, dribbling. Rainwater filling my soul with regret for being here.",
							"Beat up pickup trucks squatting in mud a few hunkered feet from a shack's ratty back door. There's nothing cordial or comfy here.",
							"\"To hear musical genius, go to the woods.\"",
							"Ten minutes later, eleven chess pieces of mine are arranged self-importantly on the table in front of Caleb.",
							"\"No! Uh ... you go first.\" He hurries three steps back and sets a serious face, hands high near his chest, holding his beer and cigar. EZ is standing beside him, looking inside.",
							"The whole world is make-believe, nothing's as it seems. Lies are told as truth and multitudes sit down salved.",
							"Axel stayed at Don's for the night, being too unconscious to drive home.",
							"Axel belches, then sneezes. Eagle Lady's friend flinches and swipes at the back of her neck.",
							"… an intoxicated penguin on roller skates.",
							"A dogfight erupts by the gas pumps--a vicious convulsion of snarling teeth and flying saliva. A baby screams. Men yank chains and shout orders and slap bad dog muzzles.",
							"God fails to let me down like I would if I was God.",
							"I don't want to have curiosities disillusioned by facts, or being contradicted if an Expert's Truth mis-matches mine.",
							"Eloquence is especially tawdry when applied with an illiterate brush.",
							"I ask her to help with all sorts of deliveries, whatever the reason ... like feathers and fritters and bull balls in season.");
							
	//Create a variable to hold the # of excerpts in our array.
	//In this way we can add or subtract excerpts from our array with out having to change any code.
	//The length of an array is equal to the number of elements it has.
	//So, excerptNumber is equal to the number of eccerpts in our array.
	var excerptNumber = excerpts.length;
	
	//Create a variable to get a random number.
	//Math.random() is a set javascript function.
	//It gets a random number between 0 and 1 such as .79843
	//Math.floor rounds a number down to the nearest whole number.
	//In the code below we get a random number, such as .79843 and
	//multiply it by the number of excerpts in our array, or in this case 8.
	//In this case the result is 6.38744.
	//Then we round it down to the nearest whole number or 6 in this case.
	//As an array starts out with 0 as the first image this would give us the 
	//image in the 7th position. 
	//Each time the script is loaded it will give a different random number.
	var randomExcerpt = Math.floor((Math.random() * excerptNumber))
	
	//Display the excerpt.
	document.write(excerpts[randomExcerpt]);