Book Meme

How fun!  :-)  Not something I ever expected.  I guess that' why it's called being "tagged." 

Shonda from Creator's Creation is the one who tagged me.  Congratulations on your pregnancy, Shonda!!!!!!  What a blessing!

So here's what I have to do:

1) Grab the book closest to you
2) Open to page 123, go down to the fourth sentence
3) Post the text of the following 3 sentences
4) Name the author and book title
5) Tag three people to do the same

Here goes:

"All monks have shaven heads, but he let his hair grow long and, as well, grew a mustache and a bushy beard, until it was said that his own mother would not know him.  He took off his monk's costume and put o the clothes of a knight, wearing a gold chain and carrying a sword.  He changed his name to Junker George."

This excerpt is from a book titled "Martin Luther" by Harry Emerson Fosdick.  We are studying the Reformation and Rennaissance right now and this book was recommended by Christine Miller in The Story of the Renaissance and the Reformation. We are using that for the spine of our study.

ON ANOTHER NOTE:

I am fairly new to the blogosphere, and the term MEME is new.  I have no idea what it means.  I just looked it up on Wikipedia and this is the information they have:

The term "meme" (IPA: /mi¢°m/, not /mɛm/ or /mimi/, to rhyme with "theme"), coined in 1976 by the zoologist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene (the unit of genetic information). Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes.

The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, achieving a degree of penetration into popular culture rare for a scientific theory.

Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection — in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution — on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and "inheritance" influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread and mutate — for better or for worse — through modification.

Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.

Hmmmmmm.....I guess I can make a sort-of connection from that, but if anyone has a better clue, please leave a comment!  :-):-)