the book thing again

[baronessekat]

Only because someone on my friends list did it I figured I'd do it again. New books around me this time

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin...along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

"The master who oversaw the making of this gospel lectionary upheld the traditions of the Liuthard group of manuscripts; but he heightened the narrative trust by generally recuding the number of figures and increasing the scale on which they were depicted; emphasizing gestures, by elongated the outstretched hands of figures, giving them an intense power capable of crossing gaps, as it were; and giving rigorous attention to the compositional relations of pictorial components occupying the same visual space."

~Taken from"Codices illustres: The world's most famous illuminated manuscripts, 400-1600" by Ingo F. Walther and Norbert Wolf. (it wasn't exactly the closest to me but the one that was closet only had a picture on page 123 so I grabbed the next closest book)

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[blaecstan.livejournal.com]

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your own bulletin...along with these instructions.
"He is a brilliant scholar, but a secular scholar, and a political captive of the State"
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (melvh just handed the book to me-it was the nearest book.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.