"Because, Renisenb, it is so easy and it costs so little labour to write down ten bushels of barley, or a hundred head of cattle, or ten fields of spelt - and the thing that is written will come to seem like the real thing, and so the writer and the scribe will come to despise the man who ploughs the fields and reaps the barley and raises the cattle - but all the same the fields and the cattle are real - they are not just marks of inks on papyrus. And when all the records and all the papyrus rolls are destroyed and the scribes are scattered, the men who toil and reap will go on, and Egypt will still live."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Hori in ' (1945), written by Agatha Christie.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scribe
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Scribe
9 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Scribe →
Related Quotes
"At new year, on the day of rites, the lady libates water on the holy. [...] On the day when the bowls of rations are …"
"The wisdom of a scribe cometh by his time of leisure: and he that is less in action, shall receive wisdom."
"If a scribe knows only a single line but his handwriting is good, he is indeed a scribe!"
"What kind of a scribe is a scribe who does not know Sumerian?"
"The scribe trained in counting is deficient on clay. The scribe skilled with clay is deficient in counting."
"A chattering scribe's guilt is great."
"A scribe who does not know how to grasp the meaning -- from where will he produce a translation?"
"The pencil that once freely traced the line Along the ruler’s straight and even side— The blade that shaped the reed-…"
"People who read tend to commit fewer s, I guess. I think that one of the reasons for that isn’t just that they’re bri…"
"Though fairy-stories are of course by no means the only medium of Escape, they are today one of the most obvious and …"