Comments: "My Tables, My Tables; Meet it is I Set it Downe!"

Perhaps "unmediated" access is what the character is after who eats a Blake print in Thomas Harris' _Red Dragon_.

Posted by George at April 3, 2004 11:48 AM

Unmediated, but not undigested.

Posted by MGK at April 3, 2004 11:53 AM

I think Blake would object strongly to the idea that unmediated access was possible -- to his works, or to anything else outside the Spooky Realms TM.

And for all he was a crackpot, he's got something there. I see mediation as something of a Zeno's Paradox.

Posted by Jess at April 3, 2004 11:55 AM

It's great you got to hear Peter Stallybrass and Roger Chartier talk. Did they have any reconstructions of erasable writing tablets on hand for people to use? Some of them seemed to be almost exactly the size of a PDA - even with a similar stylus, of course!

Posted by nick at April 3, 2004 05:21 PM

Nope, they had a great handout but no props :-(

Went out to dinner afterward, which was great fun.

Posted by MGK at April 3, 2004 07:23 PM