Coal miners used to form study groups to read Gibbon & Thucydides. Lincoln and Douglas delivered speeches that lasted three hours with no pauses. C. S. Lewis, like many kids of his era, read Paradise Lost at age nine and was translating Homer by sixteen. The brain rot is real. https://t.co/Wr1eHVBJRv
— Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze) June 22, 2025
HT: Fr. Z
