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Off-detail/on-topic: After 10 months of reading Pratchett's Discworld novels, I'm now reading the Cantebury Tales. And by golly, the tales are surprisingly accessible, entertaining and fun to read.
> “Here we have a late-12th-century sermon deploying a meme from the hit romantic story of the day,” Seb Falk, a historian at the University of Cambridge, says in a statement. “This is very early evidence of a preacher weaving pop culture into a sermon to keep his audience hooked.” One of the oldest pieces of writing I have from my ancestors is a dedication in a family bible, to my great-grandfather from his parents.…
I’m sure that there’s a ton of things out there that look like biblical references but are actually just quoting Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction :-)
SAY WHAT AGAIN MOTHER F**er - Hezakiah, 15:8
A typo is a typographic error. This is a scribe incorrectly transcribing from one manuscript to another.