Just read this capsule review in "The New Yorker" of 11nov13: "On Paper" by Nicholas A Basbanes. This buoyant, encyclopedic history celebrates paper in all its forms. Basbanes, a former investigative journalist, goes to China, where paper was invented, two thousand years ago, and to Japan, to see traditional papermakers at work. He shows how paper advanced architecture and helped spark the American Revolution. He visits a factory that produces up to ten boxes of Kleenex a second, the heavily guarded paper mill where American money is made, and the N.S.A.'s pulping plant, where thirteen tons of secrets are turned daily into "grayish slurry," which then becomes pizza boxes. He profiles librarians, an origami master [I wonder who?], and a scholar of bureaucracy named Ben Kafka. Cassiodorus, the Roman statesman, had it right: paper "is the enemy of oblivion." ..... Chila ---------------------------------------------------------------- Chilagami - I think, therefore I fold; I fold, therefore I am Folding for Fun in the Mojave Desert Southern California, USA www.origamichila.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
