Just caught this over at Blogickal and before Angela at NineRavens.com tags me — I’m going to do a preemptive strike.
The meme:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
Shadow wondered which of Odin’s ravens this was: Huginn or Muninn, Memory or Thought.
“Kay-ro?” he asked.
“In Egypt.”From American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Thanks Angela-Eloise!
Tag:
Tamu at RadiantSwan’s Musings
Chris at Prophets and Popstars
Cat at Cat’s World
Paul at Life Swamp
Rachel at Velveteen Rabbi
That was a whole paragraph!
I decided to try it myself. This is what I got:
Oh I want real power:
that soldiers, aiming at men’s
hearts, see into them and stop,
that presidents invoke old
powers– earth and wind and
all their deputies– that
generals sit before their maps
telling rapt stories of the dawn.
(Seasons of the Witch, Patricia Monaghan, p. 123)
Heh. I literally JUST read this book last week (and enjoyed it immensely). How funny.
Wow…no easy way around this one:
” ‘We must not imagine that the world turns toward us a legible face which we would have only to decipher; the world is not the accomplice of our knowledge; there is no prediscursive providence which predisposes the world in our favor. We must conceive discourse as a violence we do to things, or in any case as a practice which we impose on them.’
On one level this is a postmodern unmasking of the violence that is part of any aggressive know of the world, such as objectivism.”
- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things
from Colossians Remixed, Subverting the Empire. Brian J. Walsh and Sylvia C. Keesmat