This is the head of a pin, long considered the best ballroom for dancing angels...
Got 25 years of utter boredom? Feel like killing that time as you wait for the icy scythe of death to take you? That's just what happened in 1880. A convicted forger was serving his time in Sing Sing prison, and had nothing better to do with his time, so he fell back into religion, long the staple and comfort of the condemned.
Really, what else are you gonna' do?
Mr. Shiller didn't just spend his time in idle contemplation and navel-gazing over the Trinity. No, he was an active fella'. When his body was found dead one morning on his cell floor, a search of his corpse revealed seven standard pins: 6 silver, 1 gold: All were about 2 inches in length with a pinhead about 1.17 millimeters. That's not necessarily outstanding or too worrisome. However, upon closer inspection, it was revealed that each of the seven pins had been engraved with the full 65 word, 254 character Lord's Prayer using an instrument too small to be seen by the naked eye....
Shiller went blind making each of the 1680 strokes required to engrave each one of these...taking 25 years in all.
The moral of the story? The next time you're bored, just think, it could be a lot worse....
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