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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 1d

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25
…death dances ever with us, it is the shadow rushing up ahead that we drag along behind us, that's beneath us….

#EmilAlzamora
Museum Of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, FL

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

It's the country of financial calcula-
tions where, in the manner of a zero represented by a Point
(after the ancient method of the Arabs), men sometimes cross
the border and are immediately reduced o nothing if the algebraic operation requires it
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

But I know of no more severe judgement
regarding the imaginary lands than those 3 lines lost at sea on the mappa mundi of the honorable Johannes Ruysch, according to whom the isle of Antilia was discov by Porruguese long ago;"now when we look for it, we cannot find it"
#Senges25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

the travellers bring back insect bites, fevers that do not subside.
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

when they see Christopher Columbus, they address him as Admiral of Mosquitoes,
another way of saying that he in truth ruled over none but the
stagnant marsh air; a way, also, of indicating that the voyages
are naught but torments, that instead of gold sequins,
#Senges25

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

the invention of the new world will be built on that which
forms the common bedrock of our conscience, the fear of the
devil and the love of what gleams
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

Simple minds need to be given to dream though: invention must then rely on exaggeration, the swindle on the value
of the promised reward
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

Sire you who know how to open your heart to all the rumours
of the world, and if not your heart, Your mouth, whereby the Creator insufflates our soul, you will know how to turn a deaf
ear to such confabulators.
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

here are so many obscure passages in the Bible that it is within the reach of any clever person to find an
allusion to lands impossible to fix on a map, if not in Elias,
then in Proverbs, and if not in Proverbs, then in Job - & if
not Job, Revelation).
#Senges25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

We will be told that Paris
is a famous city in these archipelagoes, of which the cit y inFrance is but the reflection, produced by a trick of mirrors, or a copy, shimmering in the water's surface.
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

each can see for himself that this world arbitrarily pulled out of
the sea is neither a new idea, nor an ingenious invention of
our admirals, but rehashed legends, dressed up in drama and
luxury to appeal to modern appetites, embellished sometimes
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

But the mapmakers go further:they invent the natives of these territories too drawingtheir faces in the manner ofthe Guanches of the Canaries or
Ukrainians driven byforce to Genoa; without inventing muchthey invent loincloths copied from Madeira shoes copiedfrom Ceylon #Senges25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

Bringing islands into existence on paper is a heady game: I have taken it up myself in order to appreciate such intoxication as trumpery procures, that of an adventure on the high seas, at hardly any cost, drawn out in the meticulous outline of
gulfs, bills... #Senges25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

Impossible not to salute that native
chief who refused baptism at death's door-so as not tohave to see (quothhe) his executioners in paradise-an utterance that puts Spain to shame but pays honor tothe scribe capable of insinuating so much wicked
pride in a single reply #Senges25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

đoubt is to me a kingly principle as well as the chief trait of my aristocracy.
Were I to found a dynasty, steadfastly guarding its headgear, I should want for the family trait transmitted to each new
generation to be that incredulity
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

I do not discover myself in the presence of the new world, which is itself said
to have been discovered, indeed so many times, that I have it ever before me, cap-in-hand, a humble courtier heedful of my intransigence, forever a vassal to my skepticism.
#Senges25

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

They laud it, they embellish it; they consider it not a simple pastime, nay, they persuade themselves. and in some
cases there is nothing more abject than men so persuaded, whether they be knights or no, noble or ignoble.
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

A situation whereby every individual may choose, with the utmost
prudence and precision, the particular form his or her credulity will take, from start to finish.
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

The text which follows is the English translation of La réfutation majeure, itself a French translation of the Refutatio major made from the Latin copy in the collection of the library of
Grenoble (C 4853).
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 7h

Charles V is proclaimed king in 1516, at St. Gudula, in Brussels; three years later, he is unanimously elected emperor
(but the Brandenburg ele&tor takes care to record in a notarized statement that his vote was cast in fear).
#Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Jacob @jsief.bsky.social I'm reading #Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation and I just wanted to say that I'm truly enjoying your translation!!! So good!

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 1d

It's October 14th! #Senges25 #TheMajorRefutation translated by Jacob Siefring starts today! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/i...

It’s October 14th! #Senges25

#PierreSenges #TheMajorRefutation translated by Jacob Siefring, to be followed by #Gass25 #WilliamHGass #OmensettersLuck Feel free to read at your own pace!

readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 2d

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Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 2d

Starting tomorrow!

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social · 8d

#Senges25 #PierreSenges #TheMajorRefutation to be followed by #Gass25 #WilliamHGass #OmensettersLuck starting October 14th
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Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 2d

#Schattenfroh
#MichaelLentz
#Lentz25

…Schattenfroh never written, but always only mediated…its white script is sacrosanct, the black script…overwrites it…Schattenfroh is to be deprinted with white ink…page by page, line by line, letter by letter.

WHAT?!

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