A occasional series of portraits of notable bloggers.
From Bizarre and vulgar illustrations from illuminated medieval manuscripts.
Phrase of the day (not, I should hasten to add, one that has any relation to the noble lagomorph) arrant gasconading from Houseman. From which comes "insult of the day" (or perhaps "motto of the day"):
...his mind had keenness without force, and was not a trenchant instrument. His corrections, deft as they are, touch only the surface of the text; his precise and lucid explanations are seldom explanations of difficulties, but only dispel perverse misunderstandings of things which hardly any one but Scaliger can ever have misunderstood. When a real obscurity had baffled Scaliger, it baffled Huet...
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If my history teachers had peppered their classes with things like that I might have enjoyed the lessons :)
Hey, give back Eli's mole whacker!:)
Love it. :)
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