Chris Brooks

2515 days ago

Silent reading was so rare that in the Confessions, Augustine remarks with astonishment when he sees St. Ambrose glean meaning from a text simply by moving his eyes across the pag

The Dangers of Reading in Bed

theatlantic.com

In 18th-century Europe, the practice was considered a menace to life and property, but mostly to morals. An Object Lesson. Lord Walsingham’s servants found him in bed one morning in 1831, burnt to a crisp.