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| | Montaigne and the Word Processor |
 | | My interpretation of the fundamental root of such persectives is that the word processor deflects in space the act of inscription on paper in and (through its greatest virtue) suspends it in time, thus upsetting a mode which most of us have grown up with, and some of us may need. |
 | | There is a sense here in which to erase his words would be to erase some part of himself, a feeling which some of us are aware of in using the word processor, a medium where, as I have often said, erasures obscure the evolution of our texts. |
 | | As to printers' errors, so familiar to us all when our words have reached the irretrievable fixity of print, and where typos scream at us like a teenager's spots, Montaigne notes that 'The faults of the workmanship are no where so apparent, as in a matter which of it self has no recommendation. |
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