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May 12, 2008
The future of literature.
Leave a paperback out in the sun and the wind and the rain for a while and the result is a true palimpsest:
Three pages are creating this jumble of type, as you can see by the three visible page numbers at the bottom. On the top page, page 153, the paper has almost completely rotted away, just leaving the ink.
So when books rot just the ink remains, just the letters, the great libraries of the world will eventually become just a pile of letters. In the future Space People will try to put the letters back into some sort of order and create wonderfully inaccurate stories about our civilization.
Posted by john at May 12, 2008 12:38 PM