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I was perusing a 1525 book of hourswww.loc.gov/item/49031993/)) and found a haunting illustration with a detail that nonetheless delighted me:

A black-and-white illustration (the background of which I cleaned up a bit for clarity) of a crow with the onomatopoeia "CRAS CRAS" at its beak
A black-and-white illustration of a winged skeleton, perhaps death, walks among the dead holding what looks like a spear with fletching and a lantern clock with two pendula. It's walking to the right of the frame. Behind the skeleton, in the left of the frame, a building bears the text "NON PLVS" (no more?) and to the right of the frame a building bears "SIC VT" (so that?). In a tree behind the skeleton, a corvid is depicted with the onomatopoeia "cras cras". The text below reads: "Ilexi quoniã axaudiet dominus vocem orationis meæ. Quia inclinauit aurem fuam mi hi:& in diebus meis inuocabo. Circundederūt me dolores mor tis:&pericula inferni inuenerunt me. Tribulationē & dolorem inuêni:& nomen do." Google translation: "I have chosen when the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer. Because he inclined his ear to me, I will call him in my days. The pains of death surrounded me, and the perils of hell overtook me. I found tribulation and pain: and I give a name."
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A brilliant friend of mine (milkshakemotel.bsky.social) also told me that "CRAS" is both an onomatopoeia and a pun! "'cras' means tomorrow in Latin and there are a few different Catholic folks myths about the devil appearing to people in the form of a crow to get them to delay conversion"

ROSE (@milkshakemotel.bsky.social)
ROSE (@milkshakemotel.bsky.social)

sometimes you just have to listen to enya in the bath

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IMimelven.bsky.social

That would be a great pfp

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JSjoeinaustralia.bsky.social

The Latin is a translation of Psalm 116:1-4. Here's the KJV translation into English:

116 I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
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ETetamny.bsky.social

[you can put hyperlinks in skeets?]

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IOsemiprowizard.bsky.social

is that famine beneath the crow?

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🌐 melissa.news data reporter at The Center for Investigative Reporting (Mother Jones+Reveal), Python programmer, all-around dweeb. FKA iff_or.
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