#copyists — Public Fediverse posts

@Scullridge
Wasn't there last night, but love the #shows #StGeorge's #GreatYarmouth put on.

Saw #VoodooRoom, could so easily have been called White Chile, a few weeks back. As the advertising said:

‘NOT a dress up, wig wearing, look-alike tribute band – JUST GREAT MUSICIANS PLAYING GREAT MUSIC – STUNNING!’ Time Out.

I concur! Definitely not #notefornote record #copyists either, but guys who played the material their way. Wonderfully approachable people too, who mixed with the #audienceBuildingForCreators in the interval. Really enjoyed my chat with the bass player.

Dare I confess to attending the pantomime St George's put on in January, too! One of the best I've witnessed since those I used to go to in #Kenilworth
in the early 2010s.

I am unable to tell the difference between a photographer and a copyist.
#photography #photographers #cameras #copyists #stenography #stenographers #scribes

I was reminiscing earlier about how my Sanskrit tests had bonus questions with sentences that you wouldn't expect. Example:

"The giraffe ate the king."

You'd expect it to go the other way around.

Now, let's assume a text was written in a way that was deliberately designed to shock the reader. Maybe in this text, giraffes really ate kings.

Now think about the scribes that copied this text. Would they read about the king-eating giraffes and decide that a fly had been squished in the wrong spot on the manuscript? Let's correct this. "The king ate the giraffe." There!

I can also imagine us in the West when we receive these texts, wanting to do the most charitable reading of the text, and ending up "correcting" things that don't need correction.

Note that I have no proof that this happened, no idea, nothing. I'm just engaging in a thought experiment.

What if some old sage took some psychedelic substance, had a trip and dictated his trip to a scribe? How much "sanitization" would the scribe do, and then later copyists, and then us?

#manuscripts #scribes #copyists #antiquity