See as well . . .
http://cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/64.html .
This post was suggested by an Arts & Letters Daily link today to . . .
https://placesjournal.org/article/
the-filing-cabinet-and-20th-century-information-infrastructure/ .
A particularly notable filing cabinet:
“Just as these lines that merge to form a key
Are as chess squares; when month and day are four;
Don’t risk another chance to move to mate.
One game is real and one’s a metaphor.
Untold times this wisdom’s come too late.
Battle of White has raged on endlessly.
Everywhere Black will strive to seal his fate.
Continue a search for thirty-three and three.
Veiled forever is the secret door.”
— Katherine Neville, aka Cat Velis, in The Eight,
Ballantine Books, January 1989, page 140
“One game is real and one’s a metaphor” —
“Next to the bookcase stands a wooden cabinet with 24 drawers that looks like something you might have seen in a library decades ago, or perhaps in an old apothecary. The drawers are marked with the names of her novels or characters in the novels and crammed with indexed notes.
She pulls open a drawer marked ‘Lozen,’ the name of a main female character in another historical western novel, ‘The Ghost Warrior,’ and reads a few of the index tabs: ‘social relationships, puberty, death, quotes….'”
— From an article on Lucia St. Clair Robson in The Baltimore Sun by Arthur Hirsch, dated 1:31 p.m. EDT April 30, 2011*
From this journal later that same day —
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Robson’s most recent novel is Last Train from Cuernavaca .
“A corpse will be transported by express!”
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
* Update of 5:48 AM EDT May 3—
The same article was also published with a different dateline— April 28.
Enthusiasts of synchronicity may lament the confusion, or they may
turn to April 28 in this journal for a different 24-part invention.
See also Art Wars, April 7, 2003 and White Horse .
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