Episcopus Vagans

Fellow heretic Edwin (well known to CIFers under a different handle) has kindly sent me this copy of a doodle by Dr Rowan Williams, which he created as part of National Doodle Day to raise money for Epilepsy Action and Neurofibromatosis Association (and which Ed bought).


Graphologists and doodleologists will no doubt be able to read deep messages into the Primate's squiggles. There's something slightly Tudor about the script. There's the use of what turns out on close inspection to be the first line of a Latin prayer: Oculi omnium in te sperant domine (the eyes of all men look for hope to thee, O Lord). Does anyone else doodle in Latin? I also note the way the writing slopes down the page in a curve, almost like a graph describing fallling attendances at Anglican services.

Any other suggested interpretations would be most welcome.

Edwin would like to praise Dr Williams "in all decency" for doing the doodle. Quite so: and you too, Ed, for buying it.

He also asks me to post a link to the organisation's website which I'm happy to do:

http://www.nationaldoodleday.org.uk

"The doodles should go for more," he writes. Indeed. Apparently Rowan Williams' magnificent calligraphy went for less than a tenner.