"Almost certainly without the conscious intent of its authors, Myst turns out to be an allegory about the remediation of the book in an age of digital graphics." (94)
Given that I have never played Myst I was a bit confused as to how it could be an allegory about the remediation of the book. Just because a man destroys books that contain his evil sons does not seem to me to be an allegory in which one is invited to think of how books are changing and evolving in this digital graphics age. If a man in a video game destroying a book is a symbol of how literature is eventually being phased out and/or lost then there are a lot of symbols that have gone way over my head in reference to remediation. This leads me to wonder if everything truly has to be remediated and if so, to what extent? Or does remediation happen because the creation of the initial idea was good and therefore there is a desire to capitalize on the previous goodness. If anyone agrees with B&G on the above quote would you mind unpacking it because as of right now I can't say I agree with them.
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