Heh. Reminds me of The Name of the Rose. This kind of thing is endlessly interesting to me. Edit: I see this comes from Lapham's Quarterly, which is far and aw

Heh. Reminds me of The Name of the Rose. This kind of thing is endlessly interesting to me. Edit: I see this comes from Lapham's Quarterly, which is far and away my favorite magazine and an incredible resource to anyone remotely interested in ideas and history: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/