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the room where monks hand-copied civilization one cramped, candlelit letter at a time
no talkingSilence enforced; scribes used hand signals to request books
slow outputA single Bible could take a year or more
sneaky marginsBored monks doodled complaints and rabbits in the edges
cold workNo fire risk allowed near manuscripts, so scribes froze
word originLatin for place of writing, from scribere