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[Mark D. Johns]

At 05:59 AM 2/3/2004 -0600, Charles Ess wrote:
>I've long been impressed with the stubbornness of the spatial metaphor,

Someone may have mentioned this already in this discussion, but Margaret 
Wertheim's 1999 book, "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space 
from Dante to the Internet" (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.) addresses this in 
an interesting historical analysis drawn from art and literature and then 
into the digital realm.  Space has been a stubborn metaphor for several 
centuries.

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Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
Asst. Prof. of Communication/Linguistics
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA
http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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