Got tagged over the weekend by wyrdbyrd, so here goes:
Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
They’re all textbooks, so I’ll go with the most interesting one, which is Political Pressure and the Archival Record, edited by Proctor, Cook, and Williams (2005).
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
It’s a discussion of the role of private archives in a democracy (specifically in Belgium), and the importance of being able to reconstruct the political decision-making processes of the past.
Post the next 3 sentences.
“The political agency may require that particular files be treated with a certain confidentiality and even be kept secret for a defined period. The accessibility of political records may not clash with respect for personal privacy. What we can state, however, is that the destruction or neglect of political records, even if not deliberate, damages the democratic quality of the political order.”
Tag 5 people.
I know not everyone likes to do memes, but this is a favourite of mine just because it often gives me titles to add to my (exceedingly long) to-read list. So in the interest of getting a variety of books, I’m going to tag a variety of folks: Geoffrey, Tech, pogoyogamama, MadSilence, and Ramblings.
Interesting book you’re reading!
Thanks for playing! Books memes are the best.
[...] 11, 2008 by pogoyogamama I was tagged by Kirsten to do this book meme. It’s awesome because I love books. I can’t wait to see what [...]
Awesome, thanks! Overacheiver that I am, I have already posted mine.
Woohoo! MS the Younger here, and can’t wait to write this up! Maybe I can get Dad into it too ~_^
[...] 12, 2008 · No Comments We’ve been caught by Kirsten over at Now or Never, so here goes my (MS the Younger, that is) version of the Book [...]
Kirsten, check out the updated MadSilence Book Meme post:
http://madsilence.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/tagged-book-meme-isabel-allende/
Thanks for the fun. When there’s time we’ll visit the other participating bloggers to learn what’s being read.
MadSilence the Senior
Meme done at my site!
Sorry I missed this the day it was posted. From The Copernican Revolution by Thomas S. Kuhn:
During the seventeenth century, just as its full utility was being demonstrated for the first time, scholastic science was bitterly attacked by men trying to weave a radically new fabric of thought. The scholastics proved easy to ridicule, and the image has stuck. Medieval scientists more often found their problems in texts than in nature; many of those problems do not now seem problems at all; by modern standards the practice of science during the Middle Ages was incredibly inefficient. But how else could science have been reborn in the West? The centuries of scholasticism are the centuries in which the tradition of ancient science and philosophy was simultaneously reconstituted, assimilated, and tested for adequacy.