Well, I’ve just delivered my paper. It seems to have been pretty well received, and audience members had some very useful suggestions for me. Yesterday’s panel also went well. Tomorrow I have lunch with Vika at Legal Seafoods.
Now for a drink or two at the SHARP cash bar…
I don’t mean to neglect you, dear reader, it’s just that I’m having one of those periods of blogging crisis. You know, “What’s it all about?” and “What’s a blog for?” That kind of thing. *sigh* I’m being a selfish reader, not leaving comments, not sending trackback pings to entries on others’ blogs.
Well, here are a few links for ya:
Via Slashdot: “By feeding PieSpy with the entire texts of Shakespeare plays, it became possible to produce drawings of the social networks present in his plays – it is now possible to visualize the relationships between the characters in his works.” I don’t have time to investigate this tool fully right now, but one thing I like is that it maps these networks through the course of the play using an animation. Texts are not static objects; they change over time as the reader or viewer experiences them. Our visualizations of elements of texts should therefore be dynamic.
How many tales does the “General Prologue” to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales tell us are going to be told on the pilgrimage to and from Canterbury? The narrator provides the following information:
19: Bifil that in that seson on a day,
20: In southwerk at the tabard as I lay
21: Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
22: To caunterbury with ful devout corage,
23: At nyght was come into that hostelrye
24: Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,
25: Of sondry folk…
The host proposes a contest for the pilgrims:
791: That ech of yow, to shorte with oure weye,
792: In this viage shal telle tales tweye
793: To caunterbury-ward, I mene it so,
794: And homward he shal tellen othere two,
Would anyone consider 116 to be the right answer?
Via Terry Belanger on SHARP-L: Order a copy of the University of Virginia Rare Book School catalog of videotapes and DVDs.
Via Lynne Connolly on C18-L: BBC Radio 4 discussion of “The Sublime.”
Via email correspondence: Harvard University’s H20 discussion environment.