“The fact is, Phaedrus, that writing involves a similar disadvantage to painting. Yet these books remain (again, diegetically) written texts, subject to the critique against the written word Plato levelled in his Phaedrus: In this, the diegetic presentation of the books makes literal the figurative language we ascribe to the ability of books to transport the reader: the reader opens these books and is taken somewhere new. We never read or hear their language, we simply enter into it. The text details the world that the writer wishes to visit: an island is described, its qualities delineated in some detail, and a linking pane appears on the first page, ready to literally transport the reader to the object described. How do the linking books in Myst read? These books are, in-universe, written out in the alphabet and language of a dead civilization. Pocket, and give it his son for an apple.” “I think he will carry this island home in his
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