Rift

Anomalous terrain:
  • a place that (mapped) space forgot

  • where until modern times Icelanders met to conduct the business of government

  • where orality and literacy intersected
An apt metaphor for the historical situation of literacy:
  • a space between tectonic plates

  • a space between the Beowulf poet and the Mind Children

  • where orality and literacy are mutually embedded in a matrix of social practices
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