Sam P's HaF Blog

          One of the last things that we hear from Mumbo Jumbo from Papa LaBos is that the later culture will develop their own Texts for Jes Grew to follow in its relentless pursuit of all things dancing. So the question becomes, has the new Text of Jes Grew been created? And if so, what is it?           One contender that I think for the Text in today's world is social media. Social Media has a way of moving around ideas at an alarmingly fast rate. Sure, this was done through television and other parts of the Internet in the past, but social media does this in such a better way than any of those. One reason for this is that the language of social media is largely based in culture rather than politics. The greatest changes affected by social media were ones which shaped the way people acted, spoke, dressed, etc. Careers were started using social media, and groups of people are looking to monetize off of the culture spawned through us...

          One question that may be bugging the minds of people reading  Mumbo Jumbo  is just how strange the book is set up. Unlike traditional books, this book starts before the publication pages, and has many different dialectical differences. Also, its numbers are always displayed as the numeral rather than the word.           One reason that I have found that explains this book's reason behind designing itself in this way is, of course, the time period in which it is being written. Not the 1920's, that is the year the story takes place, but rather the 1970's at the same time as Ragtime  was being written and produced. This is right when Postmodernism is rising, which is the focus of the class. Manipulating the layout of the book is one easy way to cast a critical eye on traditional books and the meta-narrative involving the layout of books. It also pulls us out of reading the book, forcing us to disassociate ourselve...