medieval manuscript and scholastic culture.

     Beatrice Warde has recently described in Alphabet  an 
electric display of letters painted by light. It was a Norman 
McLaren movie advertisement of which she asks:

          Do you wonder that I was late for the theatre that 
     night, when I tell you that I saw two club-footed Egyptian 
     A’s . . . walking off arm-in-arm with the unmistakable 
     swagger of a music-hall comedy-team? I saw base-serifs 
     pulled together as if by ballet shoes, so that the letters 
     tripped off literally sur les pointes  . . . after forty centuries 
     of the necessariIy static  Alphabet, I saw what its 
     members could do in the fourth dimension of Time, “flux,” 
     movement. You may well say that I was electrified.