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.

Posted by on Dec 3, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments
  • Wendy

    “It is a simple and unwavering fact that the sun changes its path over the course of a year, rising and setting later in the summer while traveling higher across the sky and lower and shorter in the winter.”

    The Philosophy of Sustainable Design Jason Mclennan

    a- doesn’t fit in status bar
    b- I can’t follow rules

  • http://www.bankgothicoverload.com josh

    rules, schmules. this is tooaly fine to post here.

    that’s a cool sentence, too. I want to read that book now!

    i couldn’t update my sentence in my facebook or twitter, either. it’s one of the longest sentences i’ve ever seen.