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Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.

A curse issued by a medieval German monastery to scare away humanist bibliophiles, as quoted by Stephen Greenblatt in his wonderful book about the reception history of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

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