Tag, you're it - greatworm bookworm.

[frandroid]

1. Grab the nearest book. (N.B. 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.)
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. Tag 5 people.
6. Everyone else reading this entry should make a guess as to what the book is.

(I just added 6, although I guess the meme kinda calls for it implicitely...)

"In Palestine the secular al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade has sent more women on suicide missions into Israel than the more religious groups.

Robin Morgan, as an active member of the Weather Underground in the US, opposed the male dominance she encountered inside the group. From her own experience and the study of terrorism she concludes that 'the central knot of terrorism' is 'the intersection of violence, eroticism and what is considered masculinity."

I tag bougieman, gordonzola, icecreamemperor, shebelievesinme, zalina, subnuminous, zenko, dubaiwallaand culpster.

Comments

[icecreamemperor.livejournal.com]

(N.B. 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.)

Sorry, but it was right there.

"Hegel attempted to solve the problem of evil by demonstrating that even evil serves a positive function. He accepted Goethe's conception of "that force which would / Do evil evermore and yet creates the good" (see chapter 5, section 5, above). It is of the very essence of Hegel's dialectical approach to penetrate beyond such assertions as that war is good or evil to a specification of the respects in which it is good and those in which it is evil."

I never really feel like posting these to my journal. I suppose I am a bad taggee.

[icecreamemperor.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough I am drawing a blank on your quote.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Haha don't worry, if you got it I would be floored. I don't think anyone will get mine (it's actually a bit misleading, although it makes sense when you know the title) but I thought this should be a mandatory part of the meme, so I injected it in there.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Also, BLANK.

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

I don't plan on posting this either, but I filled out the meme on someone else's blog a day ago:

The Histadrut's efforts to force Jewish employers to use only union members and its incitement of strikes were countered by Revisionist strikebreaking tactics and offers to supply their own workers to the Jewish bourgeoisie of Palestine, who often backed them against the Histradut. These rivalries led Jabotinsky to break with the World Zionist Organization in 1935. He formed his "New Zionist Organization" which, at its first congress in Vienna, welcomed delegates who had been elected by 713,000 Revisionist voters, compared with the 635,000 oters for the WZO's nineteenth congress.

[subnuminous.livejournal.com]

My bookshelf is within arm's reach, and I got overwhelmed trying to figure out which book was the closest.

[sabotabby]

Okay, what are you reading? I am fascinated.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I knew you would. Originally I had something that included Leila Khaled, which I knew would rise your curiosity even more, but then I realized that I was reading from page 122. :(

It's The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism, published by Between The Lines. I just bought it for my Global Politics course. I'm going to read it in a few weeks, we'll see if it's any good. This text came from a "Women and terrorism" sidebar, about one and a half page out of the whole (tiny) book.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Oops, you weren't writing to me.

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 6th Ed., by Charles D. Smith. I'm taking a class on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and my professor told us it had the rare quality of trying to be analytical without taking a side. I'm just a tenth of the way into the book right now, so I can't establish that for sure, but thus far it hasn't come across as agitprop. Amusingly enough, I'm taking another class on how history is written.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

What are Revisionist strikebreaking techniques anyway?

[sabotabby]

I'm going to read it in a few weeks, we'll see if it's any good.

It isn't. ;)

When I'm in a procrastinatory mood, I don't care whether I've been tagged or not...

[mrputter.livejournal.com]

"The coral atolls in Mangareva lagoon had no good raw stone at all, and even the volcanic islands offered only relatively coarse-grained basalt. That was adequate for building houses and garden walls, using as oven stones, and fashioning into canoe anchors and food pounders and other crude tools, but coarse-grained basalt yielded only inferior adzes.

Fortunately, that deficiency was spectacularly remedied on Pitcairn, the much smaller (2½ square miles) and steeper extinct volcanic island lying 300 miles southeast of Mangareva."

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure- the book doesn't say.

you will never guess this book

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I almost cheated because I hate being typecast. My computer is in my office so this is where my research books are:

There are other types of anaphylactoid reactions (that is strawberry allergy) that are accountable for substances producing the release of histamine in vivo without the mediation of IgE or other immune factors.

SYMPTOMS OF FOOD ALLERGY IN GENERAL

The three most common food allergies are manifested by allergic symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract, skin and respiratory tract which are listed in Table 2.58

now don't you wish I cheated?

Re: you will never guess this book

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

I've seen some more painful results, but not many :]