A sudden, dramatic silence fell, and everyone in the room turned to
look at me like my skin had just turned green; and after a couple of seconds
Wolfgang cried "Be our Chronicler!" Two weeks later I found myself slaving
over a hot computer, turning out the first issue of what we had decided to
rename "The Phoenix". A few weeks later I went to my first event.
hought for the Day
ostremo pensandum
Quanta doctrinae commoditas sit in libris
Quam facilis, quam arcana!
Quam tuto libris humanae ignorantia paupertatem
sine verecundia denudamus!
Hi sunt magistri qui nos instruunt
sine virgis et ferula,
sine verbis et cholera, sine pannis et pecunia.
si accedis, non dormiunt;
Si inquirens interrogas, non abscondunt;
Non remurmurant si oberres;
Cachinnos nesciunt, si ignores.
(Richard de Bury, Philobiblon, I, 9)
And finally, one must consider how great the ease of learning
there is in books, how yielding, how trusty !
How safely we reveal, without shyness, in the face of our books
the poverty of our human ignorance !
They are teachers who instruct us without switches or rods,
without slaps or anger, without notice of rags or riches.
If you approach them , they are not asleep;
If you ask a question, they do not hide;
They do not mutter at you if you make a mistake;
When you are ignorant, they do not know how to laugh at you.
ord Rhodri ap Hywel 0f Rainhaven 
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y story:
lazon: Azure, on a bend sinister sable fimbriated
between two open books, three torches palewise argent