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Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity. […] William Butler Yeats, ‘The Second Coming’ (published Nov. 1920)


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the Palm of your Hand
And Eternity in an Hour.
William Blake, beginning of ‘Auguries of Innocence’  (1803; first published in 1863).


Dear reader,

Please find below a few lines about various topics which might be of interest to you. The hyperlinks
I provide in my entries should allow you to access the texts (or any other type of document) directly. This because I consider such links to be an invitation for you, dear reader, to explore the wealth of materials available from electronic repositories such as the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg and the websites of various national libraries. May your browsing of such electronic resources be as fruitful as it has been for me and as it still continues to be the case.

Fac bonum

Visita, quaeso, Domine, paginas meas et omnes insidias inimici ab eis longe repelle; Angeli tui sancti habitent in eis et me in pace atque in bona valetudine custodiant. Amen.

Domine, libera nos a malo causato a stultissimis publicis viris atque mulieribus. Amen.

Domine, libera nos a malo causato a corruptissimis scriptoribus ephemeridum. Amen.


 γὰρ ὁ καρπὸς τοῦ φωτὸς ἐν πάσῃ ἀγαθωσύνῃ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ ἀληθείᾳ
(Ephesians 5:9)


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