Brother Mycroft has a position and is unique. He has made it for himself. There has never been anything like it before, nor will be again. He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with the greatest capacity for storing facts, of any man living.
Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重, 1797-1858)
Evening Bell at Mii-dera Temple (Mii banshō), from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei no uchi)
「近江八景之内 三井晩鐘」
about 1834–35
From the Beatus of Silos manuscript, this medieval illumination depicts the Tetramorph—the four winged symbols of the Evangelists: Matthew (Man), Mark (Lion), Luke (Ox), and John (Eagle). A magnificent example of Romanesque art and Christian iconography. Spain, ca. 12th century.