Quote of the Hour: And Yet Still the Best Kind of Concerted Action

There was, I sensed, a flaw in our strategy: If you take over a restaurant as an act of protest and then order dinner in the restaurant, what you have actually done is gone to the restaurant and had dinner, since as restaurant is, by definition, always occupied, by its diners. Having come to say that you just won't take it anymore, you have to add sheepishly that you will take it, au point and with béarnaise sauce. It was as if at the Boston Tea Party the patriots had boarded the ship, bought up all of the boxes of tea, and then brewed them.

 - Adam Gopnik, "The Balzar Wars," p.236 in Paris to the Moon