I’ve been sitting on this image, waiting for the ideal time to present it to you all.
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| rawr!, huh? |
That moment never seemed to arrive, however.
Then Bookman emailed me. He's looking for his next "pleasure read" and wanted to ask:
"Have you read Norwich’s 3-volume history of Byzantium? I just saw the one-volume abridgement, and I was wondering if I should snag it or save up for the full set. Any opinion?"
After much blinking of the eyes and composing of the face, I carefully replied, explaining that Norwich’s opus came along after the time when I indulged my enthusiasm for Byzantine history, so, no… I had not read it.
Unable to stop myself, however, I then went on to wonder if a 3-volume history of an empire that endured for over a thousand years might not contain more details than can be fully taken in during the course of one reading - and suggested that one might reasonably ask oneself, “How much of this do I really need to know?”
He conceded, “Point taken, I suppose. It’s just that he’s such a good writer!”
And I thought of this image...
but now I'm seeing it in a whole 'nother light!
2 comments:
Love this quote, Jz...for me, it stands on its own, Three volume history of Byzantium? No thank you. ;)
Hugs and blessings...Cat
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Yeah.
It's a fascinating epoch but there's a reason the word "byzantine" has come to mean "excessively complicated"...
My theory? Let someone else summarize it for me! :-D
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