• First word/thought that comes to mind when you look at the above user's avatar. v7
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seizure
Skull.
What.
Chin.
Kirby
Trippy.
Grape
christmas shoop
Christmas !! edited: because of the blinking lamps.
Anime
Spiral
Beaverlake. Its a lake I live near by. :ninja:'d below
Beaver with plaque.
A codex (Latin for block of wood, book; plural codices) is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures.[citation needed] Although technically any modern paperback is a codex, the term is now used only for manuscript (hand-written) books, produced from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages. The scholarly study of manuscripts from the point of view of the bookbinding craft is called codicology. The study of ancient documents in general is called paleography. Among the experiments of earlier centuries scrolls were sometime unrolled horizontally, as a succession of columns. This made it possible to fold the scroll as an accordion. The next step was then to cut the folios, sew and glue them at their centers, making it easier to use the papyrus or vellum recto-verso as with a modern book. In traditional bookbinding, these assembled folios trimmed and curved were called "codex" in order to differentiate it from the "Case" which we now know as "Hard cover". Binding the Codex was clearly a different procedure from binding the "Case". This terminology still in use some 50 or 60 years ago[citation needed] has been nearly abandoned. Some commercial bookbinders may refer to the cover and the inside of the book instead, but, a few others[who?], attached to their traditions still use the terms Codex and Case. New World codices were written as late as the 16th century (see Maya codices and Aztec codices). Those written before the Spanish conquests seem all to have been single long sheets folded concertina-style, sometimes written on both sides of the local amatl paper. So, strictly speaking they are not in codex format, but they more consistently have "Codex" in their usual names than do other types of manuscript. The codex was an improvement upon the scroll, which it gradually replaced, first in the West, and much later in Asia. The codex in turn became the printed book, for which the term is not used. In China books were already printed but only on one side of the paper, and there were intermediate stages, such as scrolls folded concertina-style and pasted together at the back.[1] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex[/url]
Mario
trippy
What the fuck.
Christmas.
Heart
beaverball
FF(insert random roman number here)
crush capitalism
Viking.
:biggrin:
Adorable :3
Knife.
Mario enemy.
Big thighs.
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