Counting Heads
From "Counting Heads" by David Marusek
05/31/10 10:49 Filed in: publishing
"Let's
read to her," Mary said and took the library from the
shelf. But it wasn't a library. It was heavy, and the
pages were made of paper. It was a book. The
evangelines sat next to the daybed and examined the
dusty antique. The first two pages were
blank.
The book had been published in 2013, in Boston. That
must have been the old Boston. There were no glyphs,
icons, or illustrations of any kind. The text was
threaded over 240 actual pages. When you touched a
word, it did not pronounce or define itself or
display its links. It just sat there on the paper
like a stain."
I like the astonishment of two pages being blank. Signatures, how they determine our lives sometimes. In a digital book, what need for blank pages?
I like the astonishment of two pages being blank. Signatures, how they determine our lives sometimes. In a digital book, what need for blank pages?