On a nearby wall his son later placed a dedication, including a sentence that was to become one of the most famous of all monumental inscriptions: "Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" ("Reader, if you seek a monument, look about you").
He sets himself the monumental task of guiding readers all the way through the Jewish scriptures (the Old Testament, more or less, if you're a Christian) and reclaiming the Bible from both the literalists and the skeptics.
Although few will resist the temptation to keep turning the pages, readers will close this monumental work exhilarated and informed, but with plenty of questions still unanswered.
A monumental achievement and a gift to readers.
The novel is a monumental achievement that will thrill and entertain its readers while asking profound questions about mortality, legacy, and the future of the world".
Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery".Mr Halliday's monumental work, though full of colourful anecdote, may not appeal to the general reader.
Where windows don't pierce the upper walls, painted landscapes elaborate on the pastoral theme, with the iron vault of the book stacks, also skylighted, visible to readers through a tall glass wall and separated by a monumental archway.
To mark the anniversary we asked our readers across the region to share their memories of the monumental events, and to tell us how they felt about the change from a communist, collective system, to a capitalist one.
It was considered a monumental advance in comics because Peter Parker was an ordinary teenager, like many of the readers of "Spider-Man," who struggled in school to be noticed by the popular crowd.
The book, which launches the reader into its semi-dystopian world without really explaining its conditions or origins, requires monumental focus to even loosely follow, as it leaps between perspectives and locations, laughing in the face of stylistic continuity.
