![]() ![]() Madeleine, with the stipulation that ‘no one but her may look at or see those things which he has placed inside the coffers’. ![]() I concentrate particularly on the codicil to the Will in which Nostradamus bequeaths two secret coffers to his eldest daughter. ![]() The Will that I have used in the book is Nostradamus’s original last Will and Testament (in the original French, with my translation appended). The remaining fifty-eight quatrains are missing, and, to this day, they have never been found. Nostradamus did indeed only complete 942 quatrains out of 1000, representing his intended total of ten centuries of 100 quatrains apiece. ‘Perhaps proof of how aleatory the concept of nationality is lies in the fact that we must learn it before we can recognize it as such.’ From A Reading Diary by Alberto Manguel 26, Reflections and Remarks on Human Life, s.4 ‘Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.’ Robert Louis Stevenson, Complete Works, vol. ‘As it had never occurred to him to leave word behind, he was mourned over for dead till, after eight months, his first letter arrived from Talcahuano.’ From Typhoon by Joseph Conrad The Nostradamus Prophecies M A RI O RE A D I N G ![]()
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