With acknowledgements to the
Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
©1979

For the page

The page has always been the container of a virtual world.

Now the page itself (like this one) is virtual on computer screens, mobile phones and electronic book readers.

But the page is still pre-eminent as the magical space from which text comes alive in the reader's awareness, when typography transforms into imagination.

Different strokes. Different folks.

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