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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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