Observations on Leonardo (1)

Luca told me that he prefers the copies of Leonardo to the originals, saying that the wood and the plaster crack through the ingenuity, tarnished for authenticity, like an old mirror held up to creation, and fortunately his apprentice could capture the verdure present in every word that the master wrote in his journals, treatises, fables, and other manuscripts that he inscribed, inverted, facing the left in the root-brown inking, confusing to many, but clear when held up to a mirror, accepting that writing with such a pen leaves the left-handed at a disadvantage, yet not for engravers or printers.