Remember the Hand: Bodies and Bookmaking in Early Medieval ...
Remember the Hand: Bodies and Bookmaking in Early Medieval ...
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‘‘You, (t)here: remember me,’’ <strong>the</strong> scribes say. So <strong>the</strong> net of vectors is<br />
thrown out to <strong>in</strong>clude <strong>the</strong> time of read<strong>in</strong>g as well as <strong>the</strong> time of writ<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
Thus <strong>the</strong> time-mark<strong>in</strong>g annotations <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> manuscript of City of God with<br />
which we began only make explicit <strong>the</strong> performative unspool<strong>in</strong>g of embodied<br />
time that is implicit <strong>in</strong> every text written by h<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> that performs itself, over<br />
<strong>and</strong> over aga<strong>in</strong>, with every read<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>the</strong> manuscript.<br />
278 CATHERINE BROWN
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