The Card Table

[JTL]

I'm reading M&D and had this thought or weird idea. Here goes... 

M&D

p. 1
l. 17


"...excepting a sinister and wonderful Card Table which exhibits the cheaper sinusoidal Grain known in the Trade as Wand'ring Heart, causing an illusion of Depth into which for years children had gaz'd as into the illustrated Pages of Books...along with so many hinges, sliding Mortices, hidden catches, and secret compartements that neither the Twins nor their Sister can say they had been to the end of it."

The "Card Table"  is a computer connected to the internet.

The "sinusoidal Grain" is the sometimes moiré-pattern of the screen.
"illusion of Depth" is the apparent massivenes of information available on the web. Which also in itself sometimes an illusion.
The "hinges..." etc are all the crinulations of the web interminably going on and on. Some sites are secret. Others protected etc.

Maybe I had a few too many...?

Jørgen



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