The latest book meme

[morgan_dhu]

Actually, I think this has gone around before, but...

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of it and 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 three people.


The book:
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, Rebecca Solnit

Page 123 is the end of a chapter and there are only four sentences on the page, so I am posting the concluding paragragh of the chapter, which is sentences 3 and 4. In this paragraph, Solnit is quoting from Jonathan Schell's The Unconconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People, which is another book that I highly recommend.

Schell continues, "Individual hearts and minds change; those who have been changed become aware of one another; still others are emboldened, in a contagion of boldness; the 'impossible' becomes possible; immediately it is done, surprising the actors almost as much as their opponents; and suddenly, almost with the swiftness of thought - whose transformation has in fact set the whole process in motion - the old regime, a moment ago so impressive, vanishes like a mirage." Cancun 2003, where the power of small-scale farmers and other activists proved supreme and the apparently inexorable advance of the WTO was halted and turned back, was one of those carnival moments of hope realized, one of the days of creation.

If you want to play too, consider yourself tagged.