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February 8, 2010

The deckle edge on modern books is an imitation of what those sliced open books looked like.

Lucy and I were talking about just this sort of thing this morning.

posted by Deron Bauman in aesthetics, history, technology | * | 3 comments

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Sheila Ryan on February 8th, 2010 at 1:46 pm

All at once, before commencing? Or one at at time, whilst? Or not at all, and never? These are weighty considerations.
Cindy Scroggins on February 8th, 2010 at 1:49 pm

I have an uncut, unpublished collection by Wallace Stevens. I guess it went to a small print run and they decided not to bother. Probably a good thing–it isn’t a good book. But I love the uncut pages.
Sheila Ryan on February 8th, 2010 at 1:53 pm

Uncut is cool. I love uncut, too.

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