The Card Table

[David Gentle]

<<"...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.">>

<<"illusion of Depth" is the apparent massivenes of information available on the web. Which also in
itself sometimes an illusion.>>
It could also be the mock 3d beveling on buttons and windows or the more real 3d effects of computer
games which children (and adults) certainly do stare into.

David Gentle