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Nov 1Liked by Learn Latin

Why selling those pictures and profiting from demonic images?

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Nov 3Liked by Learn Latin

I apologize for my ignorance. I didn’t realize you were writing a story.

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No worries! :)

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Hi Ana, thanks for reading. These are simply the products of an 18th-century scholar’s imagination. They’re actually available in the public domain. And I do appreciate the artistic value in these illustrations. I just wrote a Lovecraftian story to give my readers a scare for Halloween.

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Fascinating. Query: why would people do this, I mean, create grimoires and such things? Do they believe these spells and invocations and such become operational? Or were they just writing fiction for effect?

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Hi Teófilo, thanks for reading. These are simply the products of an 18th-century scholar’s imagination. They’re actually available in the public domain. And I do appreciate the artistic value in these illustrations. I just wrote a Lovecraftian story to give my readers a scare for Halloween.

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Nov 1Liked by Learn Latin

I really like your Latin lessons on Orberg. I don’t like the demonic art. I understand from a historical perspective they might be interesting. I think such things are not without risk.

On another subject, I was reading Orberg’s introduction to his student manual for Familia Romana and was surprised that he said the Italianate (ecclesiastical) pronunciation changes were nearly complete much earlier than I thought. I can’t recall if it was by the 9th century or even earlier. That is the pronunciation which in Catholicism is still the standard and appears to have persisted without much change. I wonder why Universities prefer the classical pronunciation, even though it is restored? There was certainly beautiful poetry and lyricism in and after the time of the pronunciation changes.

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Hi Nicole, thanks for sharing. I prefer the classical pronunciation because it makes clear the difference between -ae (as in 'rosae') and -e (as in most adverbs, for example, lente).

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Nov 1Liked by Learn Latin

This reads like the beginning of a Borges short story

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Hi Biff, thanks a lot. That was my intention.

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It is interesting in a “candy fun kids day” you found all of these draws and even a secret writing of our old humanity… Blows up my mind !…those times.

I love to listen to your classes and munching in joining next time..what a beautiful sound is Latin to the ears! My respects to you as a teacher.

Besides I really like your statements of not keep investigating deeper these collection…

Yes! Besides I really enjoy your trip to France and your pictures ! I grew up in that world as well and the great thing is catching the light in special places or through a window of the Renascence period it’s like a bell echoes in our chest!

Great pictures indeed!

Thank you for your presence in our lives! A joy it is Sir.

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Thanks a lot for your kind words.

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