Re: Shakespeare's sister


Subject: Re: Shakespeare's sister
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 01:15:23 EST


It's funny you should mention this. I am writing a novel about a university professor who falls in love with one of his students who happens to be an expert on language, and he woos her by asking her to work with him on the University's edition of Love's Labors Lost'.

The most fun part to write so far has been writing about the reverence with which a book-lover enters a library. It's a temple to the worship of that strange object, `made of wood held together with something that previously held a cow together' to paraphrase Douglas Adams. No computer screen could ever duplicate the impact of holding a plain old book in your hands and breathing in its musky-sour aura. Pages of hypertext could never form the well-walked cathedral hallway of a book you are particularly fond of - your first copy of The Catcher in The Rye for example (mine belonged to a library so I had to leave it there, tragically).

And that's not just because spelling and grammar in Hypertext tends to be so poor, either ;-)

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Louise Z. Brooks
"Invention my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation and 2% butterscotch ripple." - Willy Wonka

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:37:54 Matt Kozusko wrote: >Clumsy9irl@aol.com wrote: > >> then again, on the opposite side of the rainbow, you have sister mary >> beats the kids [...] you never dare to >> bring a book back late, or happen to set a zoology book on the shakespeare >> shelf...ahh!! > >What's the punishment for that? I have myself been known police the >Shakespeare section at the nearest public library with one of the old, >hard-bound Norton First Folio facsimiles in hand. Patrons who fail to >perform adequate genuflections as they walk by the PR2700's get rudely >clobbered on the noggin. More than a few would-be readers leave the >floor with "PR2751.A15" imprinted backwards on their foreheads. > >You may have laughed, Jim, but was it out loud? I won't stop till I >get that award. > >-- >Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >

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