Re: Seymour response to Wang

Olivo Miotto, DBS/It- @VAR - DTN 787-8444 27-Apr-1994 1048 (@VAR)
Wed, 27 Apr 94 10:46:00 MET DST

I've had similar discussions re:books. There is no way that CD-ROM based
electronic books, for all their hypertext, will ever be a pleasurable
replacement for paper-based literature as far as I am concerned. Similarly,
even the best reproduction cannot be a replacement for an ancient original
edition. In my view, it is the texture, consistency, smell, even the
imperfections of an object, accompanied by the knowledge of the workmanship
that has gone into its production, that give the value.

I guess I come from a country where people (our grandmothers more than us)
work a whole day to produce little masterpieces of craftmanship that get eaten
over lunch- and nobody would dare ask why they do that, when they can buy
comparable products at the supermarket.

Olivo (who never has any time to really do any craft work)