After telling students to always take care with your footnotes along the way, because you will never remember where a reference is from, karma rears its head
The desk was tidied some months ago, there is no pile
May 27, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
Morning early risers, today in the #LockdownBestiary R is for Raven (Corvus Corax), that blackest of beasts; shiny feathers, twinkling eyes, shiny beaks that speak doom and bad luck. (Engraving by Whimper)
But ravens were once white. Here one of Apollo’s white ravens, spying on Coronis. Drawn by Hendrick Goltzius in 1728. When the bird returned with bad tidings, Apollo scorched its plumage. Raven became raven: shiny black. (@rijksmuseum, BI-1892-3357-32)