Ah no, that's okay, I dont want all the messages, or that wasnt what
your poem made me want, rather that what you have there is more broken
down words, like txt....
Not the whole story but the breaking of it....
Doug
On 12-Nov-08, at 8:26 AM, Janet Jackson wrote:
> no, I'd been reading one of the L=A=N=G=UA=G=E poets, Bob Perelman
> (I think
> that's his name -- it was a while ago & right now I can't be
> bothered to
> look it up). A poem made of cut-off sentences. (James Joyce does it in
> Ulysses, too, so it's not a new thing.) And it was a boring, self-
> indulgent
> little story. So I moodily savaged it by deleting half the words,
> quickly
> and randomly, and I kind of liked the effect. Make the reader work for
> their.
>
> I suppose I *could* put the text messages in, see what that does to
> it.
>
> Janet
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