Let me get one thing straight: this new technology is an absolute abomination. Yes, it ultimately accomplishes the same task as the original. It presents words for the reader to absorb. But what is lost in the process? Virtually everything. The text is dead on arrival, its humanity stripped away by a machine. The page doesn’t look the same. The work doesn’t feel the same in your hands. It smells different.
The whole operation offends my sensibilities. People are reading the Bible with it. Can you imagine? Talk about sacrilege. My tonsure tingles just thinking about it. I keep telling myself it’s a fad; people will eventually realize how terrible it is, and it will go away. But what I’m hearing from my fellow scribes makes me nervous. They keep saying movable type is hear to stay. Which means in a few short years my life’s work will be rendered meaningless and I’ll be out of a job.
Dennis Cass Wants You To Be More Awesome is dead. At some point in the near future it will be deleted. In the meantime feel free to poke around its perfectly preserved corpse.
Let me get one thing straight: this new technology is an absolute abomination. Yes, it ultimately accomplishes the same task as the original. It presents words for the reader to absorb. But what is lost in the process? Virtually everything. The text is dead on arrival, its humanity stripped away by a machine. The page doesn’t look the same. The work doesn’t feel the same in your hands. It smells different.
The whole operation offends my sensibilities. People are reading the Bible with it. Can you imagine? Talk about sacrilege. My tonsure tingles just thinking about it. I keep telling myself it’s a fad; people will eventually realize how terrible it is, and it will go away. But what I’m hearing from my fellow scribes makes me nervous. They keep saying movable type is hear to stay. Which means in a few short years my life’s work will be rendered meaningless and I’ll be out of a job.
Thanks a lot, Gutenberg. I hope you rot.
@ Lars–A treat!