Newspapers as a medium for writing are of special interest to historians as well as to ordinary people like you and me. Hence, letters, black on white, are records of people’s thoughts and opinions at specific points in time, from early signs of human existence on cave walls to digital letters on our modern-day computer screens. It expresses the enduring existence of the written word. Since it comes out of the printing business – a business hundreds of years old – it has a broader meaning. This motto is more than simply a justification for the laziness of my teacher who almost never corrected our tests on time. As he explained to us, he had heard this old printers saying many times before from his father, who was in the printing business himself. „Paper is patient! “my high school physics teacher used to say, when he corrected our exams.
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