How far has humankind fallen to have gone from the ☛ manicule indicating active thought in manuscripts of the 12th century to the all-too-frequent thumbs up in the 21st century indicating a passive action with almost no thought at all?
Tag: manicules
We are taught not to point. Pointing with your finger is rude, even though it is often extremely convenient and efficient. Medieval readers do not seem to have been hindered by this convention: in …
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As I’m thinking about this, I can’t help but think that Hypothes.is, if only for fun, ought to add a manicule functionality to their annotation product.
I totally want to be able to highlight portions of my reading with an octopus manicule!
I can see their new tagline now:
Helping hands on the digital page.
I’m off to draw some octopi…