Delaunay-Terk and Cendrars’ La Prose du TranssibÈrien et de la petite Jehanne de France was a small bit of the Art Deco exhibit at the Victoria and Albert, but it facinated me. The piece is a long, folded piece of cardstock with a prose poem travelouge of Cendrars’ train trip from Moscow to the Sea of Japan on the right, and a decorative border on the left. At the top is a banner with the title, and a diagram of the trip.
When I walked up to the piece, I recognized it — it was a web page, not only a web page, but someone’s weblog entry, as it would had been done if people wrote weblogs 90 years ago.
Okay, it’s not exactly weblog prose, since it doesn’t follow a strict chronological order, but most of the structure’s there.
