The invention of letters was followed more than two millenia later by the invention of movable type, a revolution without which the Renaissance and the Reformation would not even have been possible. But with the increase in the availability of the written word, there have been losses once again. For every work of Shakespeare put between covers, there are twenty cheap romance novels. For every book designed to teach an intelligent public, there are fifty newspapers distorting events. And for every learned tome, there are AN HUNDRED volumes of pornography.

“The Decline of the Book & the Fall of Western Civilization,” By Martin Cothran, The Imaginative Conservative, March 8, 2026

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It should be a hundred. An hundred is an archaic form which the author is using, in an affected manner, to show that he is highbrow.

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   April 2026