tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903077033901298760.post1496439939966250385..comments2024-01-18T01:22:41.603-08:00Comments on Fumblr: "Scribal Blunders, Poetic Wonders: Reports from a Modern-Day Scribe," David HadbawnikAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03819557816474024203noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903077033901298760.post-74205296899867046442013-05-24T11:24:32.533-07:002013-05-24T11:24:32.533-07:00Dawni -- Great, will be in touch...
Dan -- Well, ...Dawni -- Great, will be in touch...<br /><br />Dan -- Well, it's a question. We will have to see what happens. I see what you're saying, but I would question whether mistakes born of physical limitations -- of which we cannot ever hope to rid ourselves, only to alter the agency through which they enter the text -- inherently provide a "lesser experience." Different, yes. Part of the irony of manuscript transmission, especially as it concerns Chaucer for example, is that scribal alteration probably made his text more readable (comprehensible, enjoyable, etc.) for disparate groups of readers, thereby ensuring its legacy. And yet, judging by his own statements on the matter, he seemingly would have objected to any alterations whatsoever.D Hadbawnikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15888169593780246502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903077033901298760.post-89124030443200797892013-05-24T07:57:03.241-07:002013-05-24T07:57:03.241-07:00This practice seems like the opposite of empowerin...This practice seems like the opposite of empowering the reader. Rather than giving the reader a chance to somehow positively commune with the text, you're exposing the reader to his/her own physical limitations which will eventually, sooner or later, act to provide a lesser experience (something left out; something altered one step away from the original text by means of error that has nothing to do with a mental process). It's not a different way of reading arrived at by one's mental faculties; it's a misreading of an author's text borne out of one's own (again) physical limitations brought on by the imperfection of the eye and eventual fatigue.<br /><br />Or am I missing something?Dan Coffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17363515132592459957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4903077033901298760.post-49740445924441241232013-05-23T15:33:19.994-07:002013-05-23T15:33:19.994-07:00I am in! This is right in line with my Thesis proj...I am in! This is right in line with my Thesis project, in which I will create my own illuminated text.<br /><br />ddavid@bemidjistate.eduAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912779385782351517noreply@blogger.com