"A Copy of Roman Letters Appearing on the Trajan Columns, Rome, 114 A. D." (1940)I don't really know why I like letters, by which I mean characters by which language is written down, because we really don't know why we like anything. To say I like letters would force me to say because I like the mystical way in which humans created written language so that meaningless signs could be meaningful. But to say that is to raise the question why I like the magic of encoded meaning., and the question...
Published on May 13, 2010 19:55