"My kitchen is always open to friends"

The irony

In western Europe today an infant mortality rate of around 9 per 1000 live births is the norm. In early modern England it was some fifteen times higher, and else where worse still:
before 1750 France had over 200 deaths per 1000 live births, Geneva 296. Expectation of life at birth typically averaged under thirty years (though huge infant and childhood mortality rates skew that figure). In cities deaths exceeded births, and towns depended on an influx of incomers from the countryside to maintain the population. The young of all classes were at greatest risk-from the bloody flux, scarlet fever, whooping cough, influenza, smallpox, pneumonia; these and a multitude of now unidentifiable fevers killed perhaps 40 percent of Europe's children before the age of fifteen.

- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

Is a disorder of sleep-wake control in which elements of sleep intrude into wakefulness and elements of wakefulness intrude into sleep. The result is the classic tetrad of chronic daytime sleepiness with varying amounts of cataplexy (emotionally-triggered sudden loss of muscle tone), hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. All patients have sleepiness, but only one-third of patients will have all of these symptoms. 

Hypnagogic hallucinations

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Peace has cost you your strength, victory has defeated you.

- Bane (Dark Knight Rises)

Did authors before the printing era ever made benefits from their books?

Also, after inventing the printing press, when did they start making profits?

Bot:
الكتاب كانوا مأجورين ويكتبون لصالح الملوك والامراء، يوكلوهم بوظيفة كتب كتاب معين ويدفعولهم بالنهاية.
او يكتب لصالح مؤسسة چبيرة وياخذ عليها راتب مثل الفاتيكان

So it’s either patronage or being a wagie

"أقلام مأجورة"

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