The Sleepers of Erin
“Women, basically unreliable, have one enduring characteristic: their conduct narks you endlessly, year after year. Irritating a bloke’s their natural pastime. Yet a woman’s a sort of necessary gout, especially if you’re an itinerant antique dealer, temporarily broke in a strange country, and on the run from one – or was it two? – teams of rich homicidal fraudulent con-merchants. I had a headache.
The hall turned out to be a grand old place, everything I’d hoped. And a bonus, it was plonk in the... middle of safe old Trinity College’s grassy swards. The library was so worn and real that the coldest heart would have responded to the loving warmth of those emanations. Not just the walls and the books, but the flooring and the ceiling – and the Book of Kells.
One reason there’s so much crap about nowadays masquerading as ‘good’ antiques is that most folk are too silly for words, too greedy, and bone idle. I mean, go and look at the blindingly clever artistry of the Book of Kells (it’s actually in four ‘books’, but they put two on show usually) and you begin to appreciate the scale of the manuscript geniuses who created such illumination.MoreLess
The hall turned out to be a grand old place, everything I’d hoped. And a bonus, it was plonk in the... middle of safe old Trinity College’s grassy swards. The library was so worn and real that the coldest heart would have responded to the loving warmth of those emanations. Not just the walls and the books, but the flooring and the ceiling – and the Book of Kells.
One reason there’s so much crap about nowadays masquerading as ‘good’ antiques is that most folk are too silly for words, too greedy, and bone idle. I mean, go and look at the blindingly clever artistry of the Book of Kells (it’s actually in four ‘books’, but they put two on show usually) and you begin to appreciate the scale of the manuscript geniuses who created such illumination.MoreLess
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