#ASECS14 #smellpanel Schmidt makes quiet, but impassioned plea for 18th century low-tech experiential space through writing.
#ASECS14 #smellpanel quill pens are so squeaky! It sounds like a ... Dry erase marker?
You write with three quills, rotating as they dry/soften. #ASECS14 #smellpanel
#asecs14 #smellpanel sound of one quill scratching. Seriously, ladies and gents.
#asecs14 #smellpanel the material "fetishizing" of written letters in Austen.
#asecs14 #smellpanel neuroscience of handwriting complex
#asecs14 #smellpanel ink is iron gall, sulfide, and wine, water, or (if you're Austen) beer. Pen often held close to nose when we think, no?
#asecs14 #smellpanel biggest challenge -- consistent slant
#asecs14 #smellpanel all students in all classes must write by hand -- in copperplate 18c hand!
Oak galls #asecs14 #smellpanel http://t.co/rbqMkKNSSW
Turkey feathers -- most common along with fine crow quills. #ASECS14 #smellpanel http://t.co/5HnKG6hj4Q
#asecs14 #smellpanel oak gall ink for smelling!
#asecs14 #smellpanel and now we have quills for physicality of handwriting!
#asecs14 #smellpanel Blake anosmic? (Like Wordsworth, who we know was anosmic)
#asecs14 #smellpanel symbolic smell reduced to metaphor for breathing than for smelling/perception
#asecs14 #smellpanel smell nevertheless significant in his symbolic structure
#asecs14 #smellpanel Blake's use of sense/olfaction is asymmetrical -- least of 5 senses
#asecs14 #smellpanel nose allied for Blake with gaze
#ASECS14 #smellpanel Blake and the nose/senses.