POST-SCRIPT: A paradigm shift into the twilight zone
At Elsewhere, one might happen to page through the exciting 10-volume set of encyclopedias entitled "Our Wonder World." The storytelling is naturalistic and demonstrates that though we would like to believe that the knowledge presented in encyclopedias and the like is objective, it cannot help but be subjective. An interesting piece of this is that it is not the content really that is "wrong" or misrepresented, but the context - the words that proceed or follow the facts, the headings that they fall under, the organization of the subjects, or the presumption that it can be presented at all. Our Wonder World is fantastic for this reason, and represents an era of knowledge - where art and science and social studies mingled by necessity - that has sadly faded into the past.
DEAR READER - If you do anything while at Elsewhere, please please, take some time to leaf through the pages of this extraordinary set of books.
