Of useless blogs

In 1494, Sebastian Brandt, a German humanist and satirist, published his hugely influential and widely read satire, Das Narrnenschiff, The Ship of Fools, Stultifera Navis in Latin, an allegory about a ship laden with fools and steered by fools to the fools' paradise of Narragenia.


The very first fool on his long list is the "Bühernarr" a bibliomaniac, literally a "book fool", who had an especially exalted position aboard the ship, because he had many books that he neither read nor understood.

This blog is by a real-life book-fool, and it represents his lunatic and foolish journey across books, ideas and thoughts which he pretends to have read or thought of, and even more haughtily claims to have understood.

Den Vordantz hat man mir gelan
Dann ich on nutz vil buecher han
Die ich nit lyß und nyt verstan