dead tree
n.— «You sure aint gonna get a lot from just this small excerpt of The Book. I suggest, and it’d be in your slack-gaining ways’ best interest, to spend ANOTHER $$ on the dead tree edition. It’s slightly more verbose.» —“Re: The Book online?” by Brent Burton Usenet: alt.slack Sept. 19, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
The edge of the Grand Canyon. A remote mountaintop. A medieval cathedral. Some places are so mystical you feel like you’re close to another dimension of space and time. There’s a term for such locales: thin places. And: did you ever go...