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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: 2005-09-16 05:33 pm (UTC)2) Going back to A, the rate of change of information doesn't actually seem to have much to do with whether information is primarily available via the public web. It is much more to do with the information culture of those who pursue the subject-- whether they value free exchange of information and whether they tend to be cheap. Stuff about librarianship, global development, computer science and, puzzlingly, physics is much more likely to be published only on the open web than medicine or business. This is because those subject areas value free exchange of information and also don't like to pay for paper publications. :)