The Card Table

[The Great Quail]

Jørgen writes,

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

Perhaps, but then I've been drinking what you've been drinking! I remember
thinking the same thing when I first read M&D, that the description of the
Card Table was akin to the Internet. I also wondered if it was a metaphor
for M&D itself, which I think was already mentioned on-List....

Best,

--Quail

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