
Book of Kells
Artist unknown
800 · Trinity College Library, Dublin
The monogram of Christ swells until it fills the page, and among the spirals hide cats, mice, an otter with a fish, and a moth.
★ 8.8

The monogram of Christ swells until it fills the page, and among the spirals hide cats, mice, an otter with a fish, and a moth.

A recluse calling himself Cold Mountain scratched more than three hundred poems onto rocks in Tang China, plain about hunger, cold, and the folly of ambition. Kerouac dedicated The Dharma Bums to him.