Printing Press Operator of Mainz

✦ Your Soul Summary ✦

You worked in one of the first printing shops in Europe, setting type by hand one letter at a time and operating the press with the careful, repetitive effort that every printed page required. You understood, in a way that most people in the shop did not yet fully articulate, that what you were doing was going to change everything — the ability to produce fifty identical copies of a document in the time it took a scribe to produce one was not a convenience, it was a restructuring of the entire architecture of how knowledge moved through the world. You found this exciting and went home and ate bread and slept.