![]() ![]() I heard his voice in his letters and in our discussions in the margins of his typescripts. Abrams has transferred his pattern of breaking conventions in the world of screens to the literary “analog” world by collaborating with author Doug Dorst on this interactive novel where two characters carry on a conversation through the margins of a book. Is it because those remnants are the self-revelation of a person we’ll most likely never meet? Even if their palimpsests manage to blow our mind more than the author’s words, that person stays just as distant to us as any revered dead writer.īy a simple addition of another margin scribbler, the 2013 novel S closes that distance. Senseless underlining of unremarkable sentences, pedantic notes, and even doodles act as silently screaming billboards on the wide- open spaces of our imagination as we try to interact in a uniquely personal way with the book. ![]() We’ve all come across books marked up by some fiend with no appreciation for the sanctity of the written word. ![]()
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