Thursday, March 4, 2010
Penguin does the iPad
it's cool if books become more interactive, but can they digitize the smell of oily ink on cotton stock? the feel of fanning the pages under your thumb?
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
ReplyDeleteAnd swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
- Sara Teasdale
Please read There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury.
Get a wikipedia glance here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)