On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:28:43 EST, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Poor Erminia - I hope we are helping you to laugh in your distress (you
>seemed to be doing very well earlier)
>Liz
>
Liz,
About losses. I think it is just with the loss of a living creature, at
the beginning you hope she will come back, you expect to see her in the
street, you seem to hear her voice and one’s despondency is blinded by the
self-deceit that there might be a way to find the person somewhere else.
It is utterly irrational, but I did experience it with both my parents.
First days and months, facing only my inability to face reality.
With the passing of the time, one slowly takes in the notion of the
immutableness of death, its permanence.
I did keep copies of my poems on floppy disks, of course, and I did e-
mail what I could to Poetryetc, and to a number of friends (it is a good
precaution) ...but there were poems I just wrote and printed from my
college computer, for instance, or from my friends' or brother's homes,
of from manual type-writers, or that I scribbled with a rudimental pen -
that far from representing a will to engrave one's words on pottery and
marble , as Alison suggested - were in fact examples of extemporaneous
poems, no less significant to me for that reason.
Peter, David, Martin, thank you for the advice. There is a better way to
keep you files safe which seem to be 100 per cent secure, and it is the
following site, where I have an account for all my essays and for my
doctoral thesis. It does not expire and can keep a huge quantity of staff.
It was recommended to me by a computer expert months ago: so now I
recommend it to you.
http://ftoffice2.ft.com
It is in fact a cyber-office that no one but yourself can access.(I did
not post there my extemporaneous poems for the laziness of having to
transfere them on my computer or scan them, and so on....)
This http://ftoffice2.ft.com is the safest way to save one’s verbal
possession (it there is such a thing)….
Erminia
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