Last year the local sages were abuzz with predictions of a snowy winter, for the apple-trees, to which vegetable they attribute the gift of prophecy, were loaded down with much fruit, and “did bowwe their heades to Lord Winter.” I don’t know if there is any correlation, but I will say that it was a [...]
Our Dumb Predecessors.
03-Nov-09Whenever I think the world is coming to an end from stupidity, I just read old books. The one that has been inspiring me recently is (to be honest) Thoreau’s reading of old books. But Thoreau is approaching old-book status himself anyway: “I learn from Topsell’s Gesner, whose authority appears to be Albertus, that the [...]