I did the usual, nonfiction project in the morning and fiction in the evening. It's become a fairly soothing routine. It would be more soothing if I wasn't writing about a bookshop out to GET YOU.
Did a bit of "research" (i.e., websurfing). I'd forgotten about medieval book curses. This one is quoted a lot: "If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever size him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen."
Amen! 8-) Unfortunately, the definitive book on the subject, Anathema! Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses is out of print and expensive, but maybe I can find it in the library.
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Did a bit of "research" (i.e., websurfing). I'd forgotten about medieval book curses. This one is quoted a lot: "If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever size him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen."
Amen! 8-) Unfortunately, the definitive book on the subject, Anathema! Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses is out of print and expensive, but maybe I can find it in the library.