Meme 3
Mariana at Gatochy’s Blog tagged me for this meme. The requirements are as follows:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Locate the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences on your blog and in so doing…
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
A monastic-puritanical, world-negating ethical system then radically and immediately transfigures all the images of myth. No longer can the hero rest in innocence with the goddess of the flesh: for she is become the queen of sin. “
So long as a man has any regard for this corpse-like body,” writes the Hindu monk Shankaracharya, “he is impure, and suffers from his enemies as well as from birth, disease, and death: but when he thinks of himself as pure, as the essence of Good, and the Immovable, he becomes free… “
from The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
I’ll let others decide the appropriateness and correspondences.
I don’t always follow through on memes by tagging others. If anyone is interested however, I am tagging the following five people.
Becky @ According to Bex
Michelle @ Crow’s Feet
Lynn Jones @ YATB
Luis Drayton @ Luis Droppings
Stephanie @ Stephanie”s Pillowbook
I won’t take it personally if you do not choose to participate.
That sounds like an interesting book! It’s certainly beautifully written. Thanks for joining the meme.
Thanks for the tag. Uh-oh, all my books are packed away ‘cos of the redecorating. I’ll have to go and have a dig
Thanks Emma, quote posted and I have now tagged five more intrepid(ish) blogonaughts.
@Marianna: Campbell is one of the author’s I re-read on recurring basis, There always seems to be one of his books near the bed. He’s wonderfully articulate. Being a visually focused person myself, I’ve found a strong afinity to his ideads on mythology and symbolism. Thank you for tagging me. I “needed” a break from my present frame of mind.
@ Lynn & Becky: I see you’ve both already found your books. Thank you both for participating. I haven’t participated in many memes, so I have no clear idea how I feel about them. Part of me sees them as a means of connection. Maybe not as personally meaningful as a comment response or a post inspiration, but still a valid connection. But sometimes I need a bit of spontaneous fun to connect as well.
That’s the thing about memes, Emma. Most are inane, silly and ultimately pointless in the grand scheme…but they’re fun to do every so often, and that’s really all that matters.
Memes can be a bit of a laugh and they can also be incredably viral. “Men think about sex every 6 seconds” is a classic one. People wearing their baseball caps backwards is another.
Sorry I haven’t done mine yet - we’ve been largely without internet access for the last week or so.
Re Campbell. I read his 4-volume work on mythology many, many years ago and found it fascinating. Looking at it again later I felt a great many doubts, however, about the overriding, syncretic theory - it’s far too literary an interpretation, I believe, to be strictly accurate. For all that, though, there are a great many stimulating and thought-provoking passages in his works.
Hi Emma
I was picked for this one last month. Here’s my response: http://crows-feet.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post_07.html
I must admit I cheated and went with book choice #3. My first two had stunningly boring sentences on page 123!
I was also given a very nice award this week and am passing it on to you here: http://crows-feet.blogspot.com/2008/05/e-is-for-excellent.html
“…The subordination of the best scientific evidence to ideologically driven beliefs is yet another strategy of controlling policy by distorting and suppressing the best available information.
As the poet Thomas Moore wrote in the early 19th C., “but Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.” The administration has also adopted a new policy on the Freedom of Information Act that actively encourages federal agencies to fully consider all potential reasons for nondisclosure, regardless of whether the disclosure would be harmful.” ~ The Assault on Reason, A.Gore.
Hi Emma, how is it going? You’ve been silent for a while. I hope you’ll get back to blogging soon.
+1
Thought I ought to see if I’d missed a bunch of posts from you. Hope everything is ok.