Trying the textlinks embedded within the work will bring the narrative together in new configurations, fluid constellations formed by the path of your interest.
This makes me wonder if there are different ways that we can understand things that we are unaware of because our communication hasn't reached that point yet. What if certain methods of delivering text or information can help to to understand things in ways we don't yet know to be possible?
Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza.
I thought this was a really interesting evaluation on what exactly progression and evolution is. I never really thought about the ideas that people constantly have and the means that we all have to execution. We always think about the future and what that technology is or could be, but we don't ever talk about it in relation to the past. It made me think what if we sent modern ways that we read (like that book that you showed us) back in time, how would they react to that?
“Printing, which Rivarol so judiciously called the artillery of thought, and of which Luther said that it is the last and best gift by which God advances the things of the Gospel — printing, which has changed the destiny of Europe, and which, especially during the last two centuries, has governed opinion through the book, the pamphlet, and the newspape — printing, which since 1436 has reigned despotically over the mind of man, is, in my opinion, threatened with death by the various devices for registering sound which have lately been invented, and which little by little will go on to perfection.
I really liked this paragraph particularly because how impactful and powerfully it reads, probably because of the repetition of "printing." I also find it to be very interesting that someone as far back as 1894 could predict the death of printing that we are finally really seeing today. It's very insightful. However, this does also show how powerful printing has/had been for the world. Printing was the vital way for so many years that people received information, and the seriousness of that impact greatly juxtaposes the fact that he is claiming it to be dying.