"Aquired" from Vicki
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.
I have actually put in multiple passages, as there is a whole pile of books right here; that, and I'm bored with being home sick.
"He knew all the great performers, all the famous works, all the actors, all the actresses, all the pretty ladies, and all the great gentlemen. He seemed familiar with everything that was alluded to. But directly a subject was mentioned he interrupted the conversation with some broad joke, which made everyone laugh and forget what had been said."
--Jean-Jaques Rousseau, The Confessions
"And [forbidden to you are] all married women other than those whom you rightfully possess [through wedlock]: this is God's ordinance, binding upon you. But lawful to you are all [women] beyond these, for you to seek out, offering the of your possessions, taking them in honest wedlock, and not in fornication. And unto those whom you desire to enjoy marriage, you shall give the dowers due to them; but you will incur no sin, if after [having agreed upon] this lawful due, you freely agree with one another upon anything [else]: behold, God is indeed all-knowing, wise."
--The Qu'rãn (Nothing like a religion to take all the fun out of sex)
"The assumption in the minds of most of the evangelicals, as the commenced their work, was that Indian, Chinese, and Japanese culters were either static or declining, and that the African was hardly cultured at all. Robert Moffat wrote of the latter: 'Evangelisation must proceed civilization: nothing less than the power of divine grace can reform the heart of savages: After this the mind is susceptible.' One must not forget that the missionaries were conscious of the great and recent improvement in public order and decency which had been made in Europe between 1750 and 1850."
--R.C. Zaehner (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Religions (Suceptible minds? Yeah, that sounds about right...)
"So, too, should heaven, on the other hand, be so kind to it that it has no need to go to war, it will then come about that idleness will either render it effeminate or give rise to factions; and these two things, either in conjunction or separately, will bring about its downfall.
Wherefore, since it is impossible, so I hold, to adjust the balance so nicely as to keep things exactly to this middle course, one ought, in constitutiing a republic, to consider the possibility of its playing a more honourable role, and so to constitute it that, should necessity actually force it to expand, it may be able to retain possession of what it has acquired. Coming back, then, to the first point we raised, I am convinced that the Roman type of constitution should be adopted not that of any other republic, for to find a middle way between the two extremes I do not think possible."
--Niccollò Machiavelli, The Discourses, "Class Conflict Unavoidable"
"She should also quote samples of many girls of ancient times, such as Sakoontala and others, who, having united themselves with lovers of their own caste and their own choice, were ever happy afterwards in their society. And she should also tell of other girls who married into great families, and being troubled by rival wives, became wretched and miserable, and were finally abandoned. She should further speak of the good fortune, the continual happiness, the chastity, obedience, and affection of the man, and if the girl gets amorous about him, she should endeavour to allay her shame and her fear as well as her suspicions about any disaster that might result from her marriage."
--Vatsyayana, The Kama Sutra (Yes, Vicki, it really did happen to be on my desk at that moment - I don't clean this desk often).
Right, I actually have four other books in this pile, but now I'm done. We'll call all my typing a "back to school" excercise. Yeah, that's it.
Like Vicki, I chose to issue the following tag: "Tag whoever reads this." This is done with the knowledge that I really think chain letters and their more technological but equallly un-evolved counterparts are really fucking annoying.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people.
I have actually put in multiple passages, as there is a whole pile of books right here; that, and I'm bored with being home sick.
"He knew all the great performers, all the famous works, all the actors, all the actresses, all the pretty ladies, and all the great gentlemen. He seemed familiar with everything that was alluded to. But directly a subject was mentioned he interrupted the conversation with some broad joke, which made everyone laugh and forget what had been said."
--Jean-Jaques Rousseau, The Confessions
"And [forbidden to you are] all married women other than those whom you rightfully possess [through wedlock]: this is God's ordinance, binding upon you. But lawful to you are all [women] beyond these, for you to seek out, offering the of your possessions, taking them in honest wedlock, and not in fornication. And unto those whom you desire to enjoy marriage, you shall give the dowers due to them; but you will incur no sin, if after [having agreed upon] this lawful due, you freely agree with one another upon anything [else]: behold, God is indeed all-knowing, wise."
--The Qu'rãn (Nothing like a religion to take all the fun out of sex)
"The assumption in the minds of most of the evangelicals, as the commenced their work, was that Indian, Chinese, and Japanese culters were either static or declining, and that the African was hardly cultured at all. Robert Moffat wrote of the latter: 'Evangelisation must proceed civilization: nothing less than the power of divine grace can reform the heart of savages: After this the mind is susceptible.' One must not forget that the missionaries were conscious of the great and recent improvement in public order and decency which had been made in Europe between 1750 and 1850."
--R.C. Zaehner (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Religions (Suceptible minds? Yeah, that sounds about right...)
"So, too, should heaven, on the other hand, be so kind to it that it has no need to go to war, it will then come about that idleness will either render it effeminate or give rise to factions; and these two things, either in conjunction or separately, will bring about its downfall.
Wherefore, since it is impossible, so I hold, to adjust the balance so nicely as to keep things exactly to this middle course, one ought, in constitutiing a republic, to consider the possibility of its playing a more honourable role, and so to constitute it that, should necessity actually force it to expand, it may be able to retain possession of what it has acquired. Coming back, then, to the first point we raised, I am convinced that the Roman type of constitution should be adopted not that of any other republic, for to find a middle way between the two extremes I do not think possible."
--Niccollò Machiavelli, The Discourses, "Class Conflict Unavoidable"
"She should also quote samples of many girls of ancient times, such as Sakoontala and others, who, having united themselves with lovers of their own caste and their own choice, were ever happy afterwards in their society. And she should also tell of other girls who married into great families, and being troubled by rival wives, became wretched and miserable, and were finally abandoned. She should further speak of the good fortune, the continual happiness, the chastity, obedience, and affection of the man, and if the girl gets amorous about him, she should endeavour to allay her shame and her fear as well as her suspicions about any disaster that might result from her marriage."
--Vatsyayana, The Kama Sutra (Yes, Vicki, it really did happen to be on my desk at that moment - I don't clean this desk often).
Right, I actually have four other books in this pile, but now I'm done. We'll call all my typing a "back to school" excercise. Yeah, that's it.
Like Vicki, I chose to issue the following tag: "Tag whoever reads this." This is done with the knowledge that I really think chain letters and their more technological but equallly un-evolved counterparts are really fucking annoying.