The paradox of enclosure
Two paradoxes for today.
The book is a liberating device which encloses the world of oral speech, setting boundaries, standards, permanent fixtures. The visual page stops the flux of sounds, the book covers in/en-close knowledge, free-flowing variants slowly give way to correct and authorised versions. Folk tales become printed stories, the linguistic dr…
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