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rebeccmeisterToday has mostly been wrap-up / prep tasks at work: get more cricket paper ready, water the ants, feed the horseshoe crab, et cetera.
At one point while I was in high school, a big exhibit about Leonardo DaVinci's notebooks toured our town. I mostly recall that we had several events at school ahead of going to visit the exhibit, to somehow prepare us for it all. I mean, I guess otherwise we would have just looked at the pages and not really known what to make of them. As it stood, my memory is that I looked at the pages and didn't really know what to make of them. I mean, I understand that they have interesting elements to them, what with the writing everything backwards and the intriguing notions about how things work and about contraptions. But, then what?
Can you imagine being someone whose notebooks became so famous after death?
Anything I've ever written down has been scattered across such a wide range of different notebooks that there's no coherence to any of them, really, nor am I any sort of Renaissance artistic genius, heh. I mean, the most coherent ones are the lab notebooks, because I *do* try and uphold certain standards with those.
But is anyone going to try and read any of those? No, they are not. What's the point?
It's hard to remember sometimes that historically, access to paper and writing implements was quite limited.
Anyway, I should go home early and work on packing. FWIW I'm headed to the Seattle area for about a week, then to Portland for a conference.
At one point while I was in high school, a big exhibit about Leonardo DaVinci's notebooks toured our town. I mostly recall that we had several events at school ahead of going to visit the exhibit, to somehow prepare us for it all. I mean, I guess otherwise we would have just looked at the pages and not really known what to make of them. As it stood, my memory is that I looked at the pages and didn't really know what to make of them. I mean, I understand that they have interesting elements to them, what with the writing everything backwards and the intriguing notions about how things work and about contraptions. But, then what?
Can you imagine being someone whose notebooks became so famous after death?
Anything I've ever written down has been scattered across such a wide range of different notebooks that there's no coherence to any of them, really, nor am I any sort of Renaissance artistic genius, heh. I mean, the most coherent ones are the lab notebooks, because I *do* try and uphold certain standards with those.
But is anyone going to try and read any of those? No, they are not. What's the point?
It's hard to remember sometimes that historically, access to paper and writing implements was quite limited.
Anyway, I should go home early and work on packing. FWIW I'm headed to the Seattle area for about a week, then to Portland for a conference.
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