Baron 1, 3 and 5

One point that stood out to me from the reading was how clay is usually associated with art and not text.  This made me think about how much of art is derived from texts...cave art is called cave art and not cave communication or cave text.  Also, there were limited resources so clay was probably used for "paper" as well as pottery.  And pottery was a means of making dishes a long time ago, but now it is considered an art form and people buy pieces of pottery for hundreds of dollars with no intention of serving food or putting flowers in it.  Printmaking is considered an art form now too, but it's called printmaking which means that it's associated with print.  Printmaking is offered through the art department and not through the english department here at WSU.

Another quote from Baron that I found interesting was that "we don't notice our writing machines until something goes wrong" and how by fixing one problem we create another.  Before, if your pencil broke or the power went out, you were out of luck but you still had what you were working on.  A computer, especially a laptop, works in the dark and doesn't have a tip to break off.  However, if the computer crashes, you could lose everything you were working on.  It's true that in this day and age writing is natural to us, most of us in this class probably don't remember learning to read or write because we've been doing it for so long.  We might remember learning how to do math or learning geography though.  That makes writing different than many other subjects we learn in school.