An excuse to be pretentious.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
I saw this in babel's lj and happily realized that my Really Fucking Huge art history textbook was still sitting on my lap from where I was reading for class tomorrow.
So:
"Manetho described the succession of pharaohs, dividing them into the still-useful groups called dynasties, and the absolute dates of the pharaohs are still debated. The chronologies scholars have proposed for the earliest Egyptian dynasties can vary by as much as two centuries. Exact years cannot be assigned to the reigns of individual pharaohs until 664 BCE (Dynasty XXVI).
"At the end of the 18th century, when Europeans rediscovered Egypt, the land of the Nile became the first subject of archaeological exploration. In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte, on a military expedition to Egypt, took with him a small troop of scholars, linguists, antiquarians, and artists. The chance discovery of the famed Rosetta Stone, now in the British Museum, gave the eager scholars a key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone bears an inscription in three sections: one in Greek, which was easily read; one in demotic (Late Egyptian); and one in formal hieroglyphic."
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
I saw this in babel's lj and happily realized that my Really Fucking Huge art history textbook was still sitting on my lap from where I was reading for class tomorrow.
So:
"Manetho described the succession of pharaohs, dividing them into the still-useful groups called dynasties, and the absolute dates of the pharaohs are still debated. The chronologies scholars have proposed for the earliest Egyptian dynasties can vary by as much as two centuries. Exact years cannot be assigned to the reigns of individual pharaohs until 664 BCE (Dynasty XXVI).
"At the end of the 18th century, when Europeans rediscovered Egypt, the land of the Nile became the first subject of archaeological exploration. In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte, on a military expedition to Egypt, took with him a small troop of scholars, linguists, antiquarians, and artists. The chance discovery of the famed Rosetta Stone, now in the British Museum, gave the eager scholars a key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone bears an inscription in three sections: one in Greek, which was easily read; one in demotic (Late Egyptian); and one in formal hieroglyphic."