The portable desk has not one but many forms. In a sense, the portable desk is a long-lost ancestor of the portable computer, and the modern laptop could be considered an atavistic grandchild of the 19th-century Lap desk.
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—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“We must rest here, for this is where the teacher comes.
On his desk stands a vase of tears.”
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