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The literary world has been rocked by news that a young local man has successfully fallen asleep while resting his eyes as he read Matthew Reilly’s 2003 bestseller Scarecrow.
Dylan Harrison, a Betoota Heights leasing agent, is currently reading 462-page high-octane novel for the fourth time and is being touted as the first person in human history to nod off while reading the book.
Speaking to The Advocate this morning, the 29-year-old said that he was shocked to find the book still open on his navel when he woke around 5 o’clock this morning for work.
“Jesus,” he said.
“The last thing I remember was Shane going over that cliff and Knight and Gant getting pinged. Then bang, my alarm going off. My bedside lamp was still on,”
“That’s never happened before. A few minutes after I got out of bed, the phone rang and on the other end was some bloke from the CSIRO telling me that I was the first one to do it.”
Australia’s peak scientific body found out about Dylan’s world first after his life partner took to social media to post a photo of a tuckered out Virgo asleep with the book on his ‘little tum tum’.
Our reporter spoke to Wendy Pearson, who’s been in a mildly-committed relationship with Dylan for a few weeks now, about the world first.
“That’s how I debuted him to my followers,” she said.
“He just looked so cute with his little book like that.”
The Advocate reached out to Reilly for comment but his management says he’s stuck down the shops trying to help someone jumpstart his DeLorean DMC-12.
More to come.
