“Be Kind, Rewind” circa 650 B.C.
I just started reading Lionel Casson’s Libraries in the Ancient World, and I just came across this gem from the colophon of an ancient clay tablet:
He who breaks this tablet or puts it in water or rubs it until you cannot recognize it [and] cannot make it be understood, may Ashur, Sin, Shamash, Adad and Ishtar, Bel, Nergal, Ishtar of Nineveh, Ishtar of Arbela, Ishtar of Bit Kidmurri, the gods of heaven and earth and the gods of Assyria, may all these curse him with a curse that cannot be relieved, terrible and merciless, as long as he lives, may they let his name, his seed, be carried off from the land, may they put his flesh in a dog’s mouth!They need to figure out a modern equivalent for rental DVDs–judging from the condition I get them in sometimes, people must use them as frisbees or cutting boards.
December 9th, 2003 at 6:56 am
i have recieved confirmation from a source that edgar cayce prediction of 2021 as the world turn on its axis…woo hoo!