Used words
Bear
with
me
in
this
long-winded
and
fragrant
metaphorfor
you
will
find
the
almost
all
the
vitures
of
the
perfect
wine-glass
have
a
parallel
in
typography.
There
is
the
long
thin
stem
that
obviates
fingerprints
on
the
bowl.
Why?
Because
no
cloud
must
come
bwtween
your
eyes
and
the
fiery
heart
of
the
liquid.
Are
not
the
margins
on
book
pages
similarly
meant
to
obviate
the
necessity
of
fingering
the
type-page?
Again:
the
glass
is
colourless
or
at
the
most
only
faitly
tinged
in
the
bowl
because
the
connoisseur
judges
wine
partly
by
its
colour
and
is
impatient
of
anything
that
alters
it.
There
are
a
thousand
manneriems
in
typography
that
are
as
impudent
and
arubitrary
as
putting
port
in
tumblers
of
red
or
green
glass!
When
a
goblet
has
a
base
that
looks
too
small
for
secruity
it
does
not
matter
how
cleverly
it
is
weighted
you
feel
nervous
lest
it
should
tip
over.
There
are
ways
of
setting
lines
of
type
which
may
work
well
enough
and
yet
keep
the
reader
subconsciously
worried
by
the
fear
of
'doubling'
lines
reading
three
words
as
one
and
so
forth.
Now
the
man
who
first
chose
glass
instead
of
clay
or
metal
to
hold
his
wine
was
a
'modernist'
in
the
sense
in
which
I
am
going
to
use
that
term.
That
is
the
first
thing
he
asked
of
this
particular
object
was
not
'How
should
it
look?'
but
'What
must
it
do?'
and
to
that
extent
all
good
typography
is
modernist.
Wine
is
so
strange
and
potent
a
thing
that
it
has
been
used
in
central
ritual
of
religion
in
one
place
and
time
and
attacked
by
a
virago
with
a
hatchet
in
another.
There
is
only
one
thing
in
the
world
that
is
capable
of
stirring
and
altering
men's
minds
to
the
same
extent
and
that
is
the
coherent
expression
of
thought.
That
is
a
man's
chef
miracle
unique
to
man.
There
is
no
'explanation'
whatever
of
the
fact
that
I
can
make
arbitrary
sounds
which
will
lead
to
a
total
stranger
to
think
my
own
though.
It
is
sheer
magic
that
I
should
be
able
to
hold
a
one-sided
conversation
by
means
of
black
marks
on
paper
with
an
unknown
half-way
across
the
wrold.
Talking
broadcasting
writing
and
printing
are
all
quite
literally
forms
of
though
transference
and
it
is
the
ability
and
eagerness
to
transfer
and
receive
the
contents
of
the
mind
that
is
almost
alone
responsible
for
human
civilization.
Create your own