| ▲ | red_trumpet 11 hours ago |
| Funny typo in the subtitle. > Ed Simon on What Sven Birkerts Got Right in “The Guttenberg Elegies" The book is called "The Gutenberg Elegies". Gutenberg was the inventor of the printing press. Guttenberg[1] is a german politician who became famous for plagiarizing in his PhD thesis. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Theodor_zu_Guttenberg |
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| ▲ | tomgp 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| For me Guttenberg is an actor famous for Police Academy, Short Circuit, and Three Men And A Baby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Guttenberg |
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| ▲ | rpeden 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | His role in The Day After is the one that always stands out in my mind. |
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| ▲ | Anthony-G 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| There’s also a confusing typo in “the ceding of material books to the ephemeral gauze of the online”. I presume “gauze” was intended be “gaze”. |
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| ▲ | edflsafoiewq 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why presume that? "Gauze" makes sense. | | |
| ▲ | Anthony-G 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I read the sentence a couple of times to try to figure out what the phrase “ephemeral gauze” was intended to convey but failed to make sense of it. So, I figured that “gaze” may have been the intended word, i.e., readers pay particular attention to text while they’re in the process of reading it (gaze) but that it’s quickly forgotten when they move on to the next unrelated thing they see on the Internet (ephemerality). I’m only familiar with gauze in the context of first-aid kits and other medical usage so I’d appreciate hearing your interpretation of “ephemeral gauze”. | | |
| ▲ | edflsafoiewq 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | As opposed to the solid materiality of books, the "material" of the internet is an "ephemeral gauze", a thin and shifting fabric (a mesh, literally a web) on which it would be impossible to apply ink, to hold rigid, etc. | | |
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