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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: MT VOID, 06/06/25 -- Vol. 43, No. 49, Whole Number 2383
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 09:03:07 -0400 (EDT)
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In reference to the Magna Charta, Evelyn Leeper writes:

>One might claim, I suppose, that it is often cited in the same way
>as the Bible--by people who take pieces out of context and are
>unfamiliar with the entirety.

In my father's Orange family, this was taken in an almost-humorous
way by the Book of Kells.   "Male prostitution?  Oh yeah, that's in
the Book of Kells."   "You need a recipe for pie crust?  It's probably
in the Book of Kells."

Many years later, I went to Dublin for the Worldcon and actually saw
the Book of Kells and it was not as comprehensive as I had been lead
to believe.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."