The type of tree directly correlates to the quality and mood of the paper made from it. Yes, I said mood. There is a very detectable mood to a sheet of paper, which affects the quality of what is put upon it.
For example, a light-hearted page may be excellent sheet
music for flutes, piccolos and maybe violins. Whereas sheet music fabricated from an Oak
tree would be more suitable to kettle drums, wind instruments and, dare I say
it – electric guitars.
It is said that Walt Whitman preferred paper made from
Poplar trees, while Longfellow and Shakespeare leaned more towards the Elm.
Today’s digital age leaves us to work without pulp. Our creations rest upon pixels, spread thin
across monitors and iPads. There is a
noticeable lifelessness and an artificial glow to these creations. It is a synthesized and very false reality.
I use my own creations as an example. Zobosticleft2write.blogspot.com has been created
entirely on pixels. They are neither
high quality nor exuberant. They lay
flat and as lifeless as the silicon they were made from.
Just as you wouldn’t wish to live in a sandcastle, neither are my creations excited about cyber space.
Shakespeare has survived so long for no other reason than he can’t be unplugged.
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