{"id":51877,"date":"2012-03-22T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=51877"},"modified":"2017-01-09T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:13:01","slug":"st-patrick-of-armagh-deliver-me-from-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=51877","title":{"rendered":"“St. Patrick of Armagh, Deliver Me From Writing.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I grew up in a home with Book of Kells illustrations on the wall. During a recent trip to Ireland, I bought a couple of illustrations from Trinity College, got them framed, and they now sit on my eastern wall, and pick up the sunlight. Seeing the Book of Kells in person is a daunting and emotional experience, something I highly recommend. Not only is the book extraordinarily beautiful, but it is a pure example of the devotion of these monks to keep language\/education alive during a difficult era. You cannot believe the detail in this work, and generations of monks worked on it. <\/p>\n

And so this is extremely moving to me: complaints scribbled in the margins of illuminated manuscripts by the monks<\/a>, hunched over their work by candlelight. <\/p>\n

One reads: “This is sad! O little book! A day will come in truth when someone over your page will say, \u2018The hand that wrote it is no more.” <\/p>\n

But then, one reads: “Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink.” <\/p>\n

I have a deep love of marginalia as well, something I shared with my father. I’ve written about it before. It is difficult for me to even provide this link here<\/a>, but I will, because it is related. Written in a dark dark time. <\/p>\n

And while I share this wonderful link of monk complaints with you<\/a>, certain that some of you out there will glory in it as I do, it is only because the one I want to send it to the most is not here anymore. <\/p>\n

As the harbor is welcome to the sailor, so is the last line to the scribe.<\/i><\/p>\n

Thanks so much, to Maud Newton<\/a>, for linking to that piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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