scarith of scornello
The story of a 17th century forgery prompts this wonderful fabric of behaviors and emotions and Tuscan offense at the arrest of Galileo. The author Ingrid Rowland may even be a player in this
story of contending scholarship, early science and transgressions of religious belief. Its a timeless adventure of trickery and intrigue.
The suspect Etruscan inscriptions were not composed on linen cloth, but on paper. Oopps...
global view hand crafts
On an eight day bicycle trip we suddenly turned off onto a non-descript gravel road for no reason...but found the
home of world hand crafts. The circumstance of hand crafts in world is dire as the traditional cultures are hollowed out by economic desperation and social collapse.
We spent the morning at
Global View and bicycled away with flowing textiles, yak wool sashes, Nepalese paper and charmed palm leaf books; exemplars of wealthy cultures of poor people rather than the refuse of poor cultures of rich people.
Quality, skill and compassion is a better choice than junk.
robot book
E-books can be considered as a robotic device for reading. The difficulty is that eye reading cannot be automated. Since the reader is mobile, wireless connectivity is needed. Since the impulse and occasion to read is connected with behavior there is a need for content-on-demand and place based learning. A cultural tourism, augmented by on-line library access could provide more than niche appeal.
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