AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Appreciation for Antiquity

Lest anyone think that my postmodern technophilic interest in online publishing threatens the survival of the book, permit me simplly to observe how much I love my copy of Liddell and Scott’s Greek Lexicon, with durable pages, and the marks of the type pressed visibly, palpably into the paper. I turn to it more than other references in my work on James, in part because I value reference sources that don’t already presuppose Christian theological language-use, but in part also because the sensuous experience of touching and smelling the pages, of observing the play of ink and subtle shadow (from the press’s imprint) delight me.

Then, I use fountain pens, too.