Web publishing, Whitman, the Dead


Subject: Web publishing, Whitman, the Dead
From: George Ford (bf20455@binghamton.edu)
Date: Sat May 10 1997 - 09:48:54 GMT


Malcolm wrote:
I'm going to have
>over 500 pages of content (so far I have about 250 pages of HTML done)
>which will include everything from my first novel (all 214 pages of it) to
>100 pages of poetry, essays, plays, songs, film critiques, interviews...all
>my writing basically, as well as five photographic exhibits. I want it to
>be an evolving cornucopia of my work over the years as well as a bin for
>future things that I do.

I'm wondering what your thoughts are as far as the control you'll have over
netpublished stuff and the copywrite complications of the web. Are you at
all worried about plagiarism? I ask (among other reasons) because I've
finally decided to actually do something semi-substantial with that address
at the bottom of all my posts, and I've been feeling a little unsure of the
wisdom of publishing my fiction on the web. I am, however, bursting to put
on display my letter to the Selective Service System which I sent them along
with my (grudging) registration upon turning 18. (But that's a whole other
story, and my qualms with the gov't are a bit of a digression).

Ob-literature: Just finished reading "Song of Myself" for English 160.
Anyone else feel, as I did, that Whitman could be rewriting the Upanishads?
Unwittingly or no? Personally I loved the poem, mostly, though I'd heard
things about it from various people.

Ob-Salinger: His knowledge of the Grateful Dead's lyrics etc makes,
surprisingly, a lot of sense to me, though I can't really say why, exactly.

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George Ford
bf20455@binghamton.edu
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2371

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