Gold Wine Goblets

October 8, 2009 7:18 am | Uncategorized

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gold wine goblets
what do u think Warde was trying to say? how relevant is her essay to todays publishing?Someone pls help?

The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible
by Beatrice Warde (1900 — 1969)

Imagine that you have before you a flagon of wine. You may choose your own favourite vintage for this imaginary demonstration, so that it be a deep shimmering crimson in colour. You have two goblets before you. One is of solid gold, wrought in the most exquisite patterns. The other is of crystal-clear glass, thin as a bubble, and as transparent. Pour and drink; and according to your choice of goblet, I shall know whether or not you are a connoisseur of wine. For if you have no feelings about wine one way or the other, you will want the sensation of drinking the stuff out of a vessel that may have cost thousands of pounds; but if you are a member of that vanishing tribe, the amateurs of fine vintages, you will choose the crystal( full text available at http://gmunch.home.pipeline.com/typo-L/misc/ward.htm) l cnt think logically abt d essay and l am finding it had to analys the essay critically ?

Just another way of saying you can’t judge a book by its cover.

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