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 Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject: Favourite Quotes |
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From: Salamander by Thomas Wharton
"In an argosy of Hellenistic authors he found an amusing diatribe against the reading of novels.
Section XXVII
* Lassitude during public debates indicates the chronic reader of books full of lies, coincidences and impossibilities.
* Some of these pernicious works have been known to bring on fits of sneezing, others cause blood to flow from the ears. Those which contain didactic passages may fill the lungs with mucosity and impair breathing.[
* Inflamation of the eyes from protracted reading of such works may be alleviated by drinking slightly watered wine.
* Care should be taken of he books given to a pubescent female; if the breasts. begin to swell to unusual fullness, reading should cease.
* These books are often hastily bound with pastes derived from the boiling of animal hides The inferiority of such bindings usually matched with the worthlessness of the contents.
* Curiously, eunuchs do not read these books, nor do they go bald.
“He was intrigued by Sabbatai Donnolo’s comparison of God to a book. If you could cradle this fearful volume in your hand, and were to open it anywhere, beginning, middle or end, you would find that between any two pages there would be always a third, between any two words there would be always another, between any two letters would be an unheard, invisible letter, a doorway to the void known only to mystics, where reigns a silence so profound that the roar of the entire universe rushes to fill it.”
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