On 4/11/13 6:04 AM, David Sheets wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Simon St.Laurent <> wrote:
>> I really like the image this gives me of schemas as headstones on graves,
>> identifying what lies beneath...
>
> Every author is a ghost, speaking from beyond the veil of time. Any
> citation, any specification, any metadata may be taken as a grave
> marker.
Yes, but we prefer to forget those disconnections from the present. (And
from each other, per Sean McGrath's notes on Saussure.)
> Or is there something specific to schemas, as formal structural
> specification, that makes this analogy more apt?
The reminder of transience is exciting enough to me. In some ways I
feel like the opening of this project is archaeology in advance.
No, I won't quote Ozymandias yet. I'm hopeful of another act.
Thanks,
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/
