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Citation: "The country's flora and fauna ought now to award him a scroll inscribed with the fitting title, Curator Naturae. Failing that contingency, the Princeton species of Homo sapiens takes pleasure today in bestowing upon him [an] honorary degree...
...Scroll Fragments
Your extremely interesting and information April 15 article on the Dead Sea Scroll will do a lot to clear up most of the misconceptions concerning them in the public mind
Congratulations on the article. I have also thoroughly enjoyed your symbolic cover composition and recognized the "scroll fragment," having identified and translated this document myself in 1948. I admire the skill of Artist Bohrod in being able to apply the Habakkuk commentary (whose photographic plates were published in 1950), hack out a portion of it, crumple it and tint it in simulating a scroll fragment...
...landscape itself, in the mountains and solid trees seen emerging through the fog. But 500 years later it was the small, indistinct figures that caught the eye of Ch'ing (Manchu) Emperor Ch'ien-lung, caused him to write his appreciation at the top of the scroll: "Mountain and villages, dimly seen through rain and clouds; the fisherman on his way home feels the weight [of rain] on his clothes...