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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.