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Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania: Desiderius Erasmus lived his happiest months from late 1507 into 1508 at the Venetian print-shop of Aldus Manutius. A peripatetic scholar, the Dutch scholar had lived in Rotterdam and London,… #BookstoresandLibraries #Features

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Chris McLaren

Chris McLaren

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"On the one hand, 15 years isn't very long to a literal immortal. On the other hand, it's 15 years forced to be incarnate, held prisoner by humans. Every moment incarnate they see as lowering or sullying themselves. Being held there by us—by what they think of as jumped up dust—offends their ego "

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