New Tag Meme about the closest Book

I was tagged by Matt in the comment to the previous post. Here's what to do:

--Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
--Find Page 123.
--Find the first 5 sentences.
--Post the next 3 sentences.
--Tag 5 people.

Well, I had to get the tape measure out. There is a lamp stand behind me to my left and five feet back and Emerson: The Mind on Fire is laying there. But, there are several books on the coffee table behind me and to the right. Three books flanked by bookends set on top of 5 books stacked laying down. I'll take the bottom one and the first in the series as the closest. At 86 inches it is slightly closer than the Emerson book.

"We cannot, therefore, assume (as did Radcliffe-Brown) that these Andamanese stories of the pig hunt and of pigs are truly native to the islanders and as primitive as their culture. They are the fragments, rather, of a mainland mythology which has regressed - that is, run wild like the pigs themselves, and, like the associated pottery, has deteriorated, breaking up, as it were, into shards. But there is a creative work here evident, also, in that the imported material has been imaginatively adapted to the life and features of the islands."

An amazingly coherent, self-contained thought from Joseph Campbell's The Way of the Animal Powers Vol 1 Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers

Ok, it is now time to tag Jason, Matthew, Mark, Scott, and James.