These huge papers, they fall slowly. They're actually displacing an enormous amount of air. . . . I think the pleasure of sinking down into a unit of time is fundamental to what all historians like doing. To my mind, newspapers are books' yappier cousins. They invite discussion and debate and, arguably, more participation in public life.
Journalism is a conversation.
Swope's vision is part of an entire species of conversation. And that conversation inheres in paper. Double Fold reminds us that paper taps an ber-party line buzzing across centuries.