Bliss
First we meet George Smith, a 19th-century scholar of humble origins who started out as an engraver of bank notes. Fascinated by biblical history, he was drawn to the vast collection of clay tablets in the British Museum, where he proved himself adept at assembling the fragments into a semi-coherent whole, earning himself a spot as assistant curator of the collection. Scholars were only just figuring out how to read cuneiform, the wedge-shaped symbols impressed into clay that look as if tiny birds had wandered over a patch of wet cement. Smith was soon reading it better than anyone else, and in 1872, in a now famous moment of scholarly discovery, he decoded the story of a flood very much like the biblical account of Noah and became so excited he began undressing.
Esta historia es demasiado buena como para que la pierda como se pierde la memoria de un replicante. Historia hallable en la historia de Gilgamesh.
Mas perlas del domingo: Se rueda el final de Los Soprano. A uno le encantaria escribir algo inacable sobre mi tocayo, supongo que iran apareciendo enlaces por aqui en los proximos dias.
Este articulo sobre las Feroe tendra que esperar a que haga la cama, mil tareas domesticas, coma mas fresas y, terminado el Inferno ayer en un Borders en Boylston St., Boston, comience a cruzar la isla del Purgatorio.
