I think it is easy to forget that people did not always have access to things like the internet, or anything visual for that matter. In 'The Rhinoceros" text, it's quite easy to understand that the people of this time had this non-visual handicap. Honestly, this text was very difficult for me to read, because of all the imagery. I actually have a comparison, this text distantly reminds me of Edgar Allen poe's writing, although "the Rhinoceros" takes this to a whole new level. Poe's work and "the Rhinoceros both go into extremely vivid detail in wanting to totally immerse the reader and, in this case, describe something for you to get a clear picture in you're head.
This text was easy to understand once I was able to put myself into 1515. I just had to push out my prior knowledge. If I didn't know what a Rhinoceros looked like, I would picture it differentially if I was just going off the text. I picture i've a lot bigger, and a lot more dangerous looking. This reading definitally gave me a more objectifing view of this topic and how to approch it
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