As in: Blogistry , Hypertext , Reading

Quoted in Avatars of the Word by James O'Donnell:

They have chopped up the text into so many small parts, an brought forth so many concordant passages to suit their own purposes that to some degree they confuse both the mind and memory of the reader and distract it from understanding the literal meaning of the text.

That's Nicholas of Lyre, lamenting the proliferation of manuscripts in the fourteenth century. This passage struck me as hilariously apt (as it obviously did O'Donnel). More later.

Posted by briley at February 14, 2005 7:11 PM