Disasters Galore
Steven Connor: Nostradamus, 27 September 2012
Nostradamus: The Prophecies
translated by Richard Sieburth.
Penguin, 351 pp., £20, November 2012,978 0 14 310675 3 Show More
translated by Richard Sieburth.
Penguin, 351 pp., £20, November 2012,
“... What is the point of prophets, and of prophecy? Not, it seems, to impart useful advance information about the future. One of the most irritating things about claims made for premonitions and other alleged forms of foresight is that they never seem to contain anything specific enough – the winner of the 4.30 at Lingfield, say, or whether it will be a white Christmas – for anyone to make practical use of them ... ”