I. Down the Rabbit Hole

But when I pilgrimaged to see the manuscript in person at the British Library and peered at it through the glass I had even less of a chance to appreciate it as a text—though I did stand in awe of the handwriting for a long time. I can't even remember which page it was opened to because I was too busy seeing the lines to read the words. \'already, we are stuck finding Alice through a digital window\' Several digital humanities scholars have already grappled with the lens of the digital archive. Alex Reid address the importance of the lens: \'the digitization of traditional humanities objects is not a neutral process...one is actually studying a 21st century digital record.\'
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