Sunday, September 9, 2007

the yiddish part of me laughed heartily

On the day I presented on Aby Warburg's formulation of Nachleben, I brought in my laptop so I could show a few slides of the Mnemosyne Atlas.

M. saw my machine and admired its diminutive size.

"In Germany," he said, "we don't call it a laptop. It's a schlepp-top."

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