The infamous “Page 56 Game” makes it to my blog
“Modern sympathies make this scene of carnage a kind of heroic tragedy, with the lions as protagonists, but it is unlikely that the artists of the king had any intention other than to aggrandize his image by piling up his kills, by showing the king of men pitting himself against and conquering the king of beasts.”
-Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, Tenth Edition, Volume 1
It’s a reference to this image of King Ashurbanipal: http://tinyurl.com/killinglions
So I had a pretty seriously long sentence. So long that it went all the way to page 57. Which is why I never did well at Survey of Art History courses. Everyone was such a windbag.
Rules:
* Grab the book closest to you. Now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th sentence.
* Write that sentence as your status.
* Copy these instructions as a comment to your blog/twitter/plurk/you name it.
* Don’t go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have — just grab the closest one.
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Wendy
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