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become the itinerant scribes (mostly of Germanic or of
Low Country origin) who wandered all over Europe in
these years, even working in Italy. Some scribes joined
forces with the enemy and became printers themselves—
though some of those upon whom Fortune did not smile
later forsook the press and returned to their former
occupation. This is rather strong evidence for the belief
that a scribe, in the closing years of the fifteenth century,
could still make a living for himself with his pen. (pp.
26­7)
Usher has made it plain that the cluster of events and
technologies that got together in the mind and age of
Gutenberg is quite opaque. Nobody is today prepared to say
even what it was that Gutenberg invented. In the laughing
phrase of Joyce we must “sink deep or touch not the Cartesian