Manuscript Auction!
An incredibly rare handwritten manuscript of an unfinished novel by Jane Austen – the only one that is still in private hands – is to appear at auction in London.
In keeping with my recent cogitations on the real vs the immaterial, manuscripts are a good investment. A handwritten one provides an incredible sense of connection to the author, a corrected typescript much less of one, and a modern word processed document none at all.
There was a phase that stuck with me from a review of The Fantastic Mr. Fox, "you can see the fingerprints".
With digital there are no fingerprints, which strikes me as a loss.
Again, not that I'd want to write this thing longhand and transfer it over somehow (although a blog written entirely in longhand and posted via scanned image would be an interesting project for someone else...), just noting it makes the process of creation much more opaque.
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