It is not about glorifying the act but rather acknowledging the exhaustion that comes with the territory of just trying to hold it all together every single day
I still think THROAT SPROCKETS itself could turn the movie or cable TV world on its ear, if given half a chance
I was also concerned about the quality
Turning over the manuscripts, he found many rare and ancient works, with whole sheets torn out, or with the margins ruthlessly clipped. Boccaccio burst into tears and asked a monk he met in the cloister to explain the neglect. He was told that in order to generate income, some of the monks occasionally tore out whole handfuls of leaves and made them into psalters, which they sold to boys, and cut off strips of parchment, which they turned into amulets, to sell to women. What specific items Boccaccio may have acquired during this secret visit is not recorded, but later scholarship suggests that while he was there he recovered significant portions of both the Annals and History by Tacitus, the Roman historian admired most by Edward Gibbon in the eighteenth century, yet totally forgotten prior to this fourteenth-century find
References Ribeiro L, Ind PW
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