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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2008-12-16 03:13 pm (UTC)I think they do. I've also noticed this in editing my own work: I read it very differently on and off screen. I'm actually doing a lot of stuff as a sort of grad school side project right now on publishing and reading and online vs. offline and e-texts vs. paper text editions...
I mean, there's so many more options than just ebooks too. Ebooks themselves can be so different. Take a look at Des Imagistes (http://www.desimagistes.com), a compilation of imagist poetry - it's available on that site in both PDF and HTML version (I worked on preparing it for online publication, LOL). We purposely tried to make the HTML version quite like the book version but it's still a completely different experience...