Letter From the Editor - 11/19/07
Dear Readers,
According to Wikipedia:
Prose became the regular medium with the introduction of paper – in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries, in Asia earlier. Prose provided the ideal matter for silent and intimate reading, it could be translated without greater stylistic losses. Paper (cheaper than parchment) could be easier spent on coincidental wordings of long prose histories. The printed book completed the development towards a product which could actually address the individual silent reader. Verse romances became part of the epic tradition; prose romances developed an internal debate over their proper design and their special history. A search for precursors ensued with the effect that the “novel”, so the modern generic term, can today look back on diverse beginnings whether in ancient Greece or in medieval Eastern Asia.
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What will we think of, next?
Stay tuned. You might be surprised.
Best Regards,
The Shadowmaster
