1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog* along with these instructions.
[5. Don't you dare dig for that cool/intellectual book you hide away under the bed for occasions such as these ... Yes, I'm lookin' at you! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.]
My results:
Atqui locus prior sit necesse est quam corpus locatum. Locus igitur primo designabitur, id quod planum uocant" (Every body exists in some state and it is necessary for it to exist in some place. That which thus exists, which exists first, we must also consider to exist prior to this. And it is necessary for the place to exist prior to the object. Therefore the place must be in the first instance designated, and they call this a plane").
From Perspective as Symbolic Form by Erwin Panofsky, which I pulled off my bookshelf a little while ago to revisit the 3 basic princilpes of linear perspective (which are: (1) perpendiculars meet at the central vanishing point, (2) parallels have a common vanishing point, and (3) equal dimensions diminish progressively as they recede in space.)
*or perhaps here in the comments
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