wormholes

February 8, 2022 8:05 AM

Following a worm "In addition to a hole where the seal has been torn away and wear holes, it has worm holes, and the question was how the letter had been folded when the worm(s) made them. While we don’t know the exact number of worms involved, for simplicity’s sake we will assume that there was only one, very energetic, worm. From whence did the worm come? Where did it go?" [via]
posted by dhruva (3 comments total)

For more fun with holes in paper, see this previously about letter locking.
posted by zamboni at 8:59 AM on February 8, 2022 [3 favorites]

In that great library in the sky, the ghost of a seventeenth-century Scottish bookworm is feeling enormously flattered by all the attention.
posted by Gerald Bostock at 1:07 PM on February 8, 2022 [1 favorite]

This is brilliant in its simplicity.
posted by egypturnash at 2:29 PM on February 8, 2022