Aug 15, 2007
I was thinking about rhymes - not poetry, necessarily, but just rhyming, and how it originated in our history, in our language.
Marshall McLuhan provides a clue, as he does for so much in communication: lots of things that we regard as art forms or sports, McLuhan says, started out as very practical technologies. For...
Aug 15, 2007
People in the Middle Ages spoke of a Prester John - a prince of a far off kingdom in the East. He was said to have magic powers and magical instruments. Most magical of all was his "speculum," through which Prester John could see all the provinces in his kingdom. A sort of television...
Scholars, inspired by this...