Text Hexes – Futility Closet. Books were so precious in the Middle Ages that monks invoked curses against any who might steal them: This book belongs to S. Maximin at his monastery of Micy, which abbat Peter caused to be written, and with his own labour corrected and punctuated, and on Holy Thursday dedicated to…
Trouble Above – via Futility Closet
Trouble Above – Futility Closet. I have fully considered the project of these our modern Dædalists, and am resolved so far to discourage it, as to prevent any person from flying in my time. It would fill the world with innumerable immoralities, and give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have…