Blog Unit 3
This was a very interesting article about how language goes back in time with very different styles. This was about how books were all started and who would have figured you could have this one little item the Amazon Kindle book that will store several hundred books and you can take them with you everywhere you go that is how amazing our sources have become.
Why There Are Pages and Why We Must Turn Them by Robert Bringhurst has very great views of the books and goes really deep in discussing the history about all of them. The art of storytelling has not really changed in my opinion now days the storytelling is more adventurous and has different twists in books. The older books are more truthful and are still very interesting. A book is not a catalog or list; it has to make more sense than that. It is not a stack of cordwood but a tree; a branching, leafing, flowering structure, unfolding in the mind, where it can find the space it needs (21). This really shows me how people use the tree as an explanation on how they want their story to start and begin. To me a book is a very creative piece of art it gives the brain something else to think about. What makes a book a book, in the fullest sense of the word, is its plausible claim to be a fairly self-contained component of the essential human legacy (22). Does this make printed books obsolete? It does nothing of the kind- not in English, French, or Russian, and not in Inuktitut or Cree. Books are not in competition with the computer any more than they are with the typewriter or with the pin (24). This just shows to prove on how much we actually rely on computers now versus books.
Works Cited
Bringhurst, Robert., Bay, Heriot. “Why There Are Pages and Why They Must Turn.” World Literature Today Vol. 82.5. (2008):21-26. EBSCO. University of Oklahoma Library. 17 Feb 2011. http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/eds/detail?hid=2&sid=30ebfd3d-79b1-4de6-adfd-da38feab90ad%40sessionmgr4&vid=3&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=f5h&AN=34365977.
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