29 juin 2014
James Harriman Smith, « On having your pencil ready », A muse of fire, ID : 10670/1.1xtrz7
I have been reading Joseph Roach's Cities of the Dead recently. It's amazing, and I'm learning a great deal. While there will probably be a blog post dedicated to the text in the near(ish) future, I wanted to write today about something else instead. It all begins with an innocuous pair of sentences about halfway through one of Roach's chapters, where he discusses the meeting of primarily oral and primarily literate cultures that took place when four native American 'kings' visited Queen Anne...