User Experience Page the Fifth

Greetings Ladies and germs, here is page 5-

NOTSES!

Brunel is being sarcastic about the Great Work of legislated standardisation.. he was a prime individualist and does an alarming John Galt impression in the hearings on workplace safety recorded in the invaluable The Intemperate Engineer:

A man who is working piece work at the bottom of a mine is thrown entirely upon his own resources and his success depends upon his own care and throwing liability of any accident to him upon the master would necessarily involve a much greater interference on the part of the master with the mode of proceeding and the whole detail of the work of the workman… Some risks I admit are run as a consequence but I do not think that the results of those risks are at all to be compared with the advantage attained in our manufactures generally by that system…

I believe personally that exactly this system out to be applied to spelling and other errors of those of labouring in the mines of creation..

Marian Evans’ heavy resistance to revealing herself as George Eliot is possibly too involved a subject to launch into on such a lovely day when I’m getting hungry. Plenty of time for more notes on that later, pleeeenty of time.. in the meantime, enjoy her

Silly Novels By Lady Novelists.

Don’t forget, if you’re in London and it’s Wednesday the 14th of November and you have nothing better to do, I’m chatting with some folks at GOSH COMICS between 7 and 9– along with, it seems (to my great excitement) Apostolos Dodiaxis, author of Logicomix! Followed by a pint or two at, most appropriately, the John Snow, who is wondering when I’m going to get around to his big moment in Vampire Poets.