Thread: Can Intelligent Literature survive the digital age?
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Old 09-16-2008, 09:05 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by vivaldirules View Post
Books? Preposterous! The only words that can be read with any intimacy are in cuneiform on slate tablets. You modern techno geeks with your papyrus scrolls and paper books are going to destroy words forever. You'll never understand the true meaning of writers who carefully formed each symbol hunched over a pre-fired tablet with stylus in hand. Dispense with your high-tech rolls of tree bark and neatly stacked white rectangles now! Read words the way man was meant to read them!


John Walsh says "The callowness of the e-book makes you weep"
Er, cuneiform is written on unfired clay tablets. You write it using a wedge-shaped "stamp" in the soft clay. Once you've written your tablet, you fire it. How do you write it on slate?
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