Erasmus in Cambridge 1513:
“We have been living ... for some months a snail’s life. We shrink and hide ourselves indoors, and are as busy as bees in study. There is a great solitude here, most people away for fear of plague ... I am determined to take flight”
The
@bodleianlibs
scan and deliver team should be put in charge of everything -- track and trace, vaccine delivery, the lot. They are miracle workers. I ordered a chapter at 3pm today; by 6pm it was with me. Thanks so much!
My younger son just leant over and looked at the document open on the laptop.
"Why did you even write this? It's just a waste of time."
I may be raising reader 2.
According to the official history of
@NewCollegeOx
, one Fellow in the 1660s 'refused to get out of bed in the winter'. This is portrayed by the authors as negligence, but now seems entirely sensible.
Looking out some old photos, I found this one of me, aged 15, doing work experience for Tony Benn. It is unnecessary to observe that I was not a cool teenager.