"Where am I when I am involved...

"Where am I when I am involved in a book?"

--Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies

"You're in cyberspace."

--Kevin Kelly executive editor of Wired magazine, responding to Birkerts in the Harper's Magazine Forum, "What Are We Doing Online?" (August 1995)

I have before my observations a page, and on the page, typewritten in a serif fount is a poem. It is an lyric poem written in 1819 by John Keats. I read the first words aloud to myself, slowly pronouncing each syllable as although it were a musical note or a percussive beat: "Thou still unravish'd bride of