“For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.” AdventureProductsStonesBritishGreekMuseumsIconsAdministrativeBritish MuseumRosetta Stone Author:Neil MacGregor
“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.” KnowsHandsAgeFormPurposeBlackAttitudeMiddleStonesGreekMelancholyPeculiarRevealingMiddle AgesGothicCalligraphy Author:Victor Hugo
“Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.” SoulSelfStonesWarmLovelyDeceptionGreekTortureCoveredTormentInventorBlanketSelf DeceptionHades Book:The Corrections: A Novel Source: The Corrections: A Novel