Heathen knights, Patrick would now make use of lances for selfie sticks no
doubt. Lawrence, when I rattle out poems on ipad, I still save versions of
them and send them to desktop. Good to know where stuff came from and
sometimes the freshness of early drafts still trumps stuff much-mucked
with.
Bill
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 8:25 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I've experienced this poems on a mobile phone stuff.
> One bit of me finds it exciting -- in some ways
> but it seems to make sense of the words spaced out meaningfully impossible
> and negates benefits of redrafting -- thinking now of evidence of
> benefitting writing skills by printing out and redrafting that was known
> maybe 30 years ago -- but that's been lost or subsumed into "computers are
> good" and now what I think of as idiots' phones subsume even that
>
> I tried, at a workshop, to express this a while back. The young person
> addressed listened very politely and then said "but I don't know about
> that"
>
> L
>
>
>
> On 26 April 2017 at 11:02, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > thanks Bill -I have never been able to commit to memory -I remember once
> I
> > was in a medieval play -had terrible job remembering my few line -hang on
> >
> > 'her come I a heathen knight for St George to
> > fight...................................'wel some has stuck over 50
> > years!!!
> >
> >
> > On 26/04/2017 09:49, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >
> >> Printing? What's all this printing stuff, Patrick? At poetry readings
> I've
> >> been to recently, poets read their stuff, if they can't commit it to
> >> memory, straight off their mobile phones or tablets. I'm more like your
> >> 'he' here for the moment but when the next ink cartridge conks, I might
> go
> >> with the flow. I like your line here 'old a clay tablet'.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 6:20 PM, Patrick McManus <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> *ALTHOUGH*
> >>>
> >>> he
> >>>
> >>> wrote
> >>>
> >>> his poems
> >>>
> >>> on his super
> >>>
> >>> highly efficient
> >>>
> >>> ultra-modern
> >>>
> >>> tech computer
> >>>
> >>> he
> >>>
> >>> nostalgically
> >>>
> >>> printed them up
> >>>
> >>> on his beloved
> >>>
> >>> old a clay tablet
> >>>
> >>> printer
> >>>
> >>> /pmcmanus/
> >>>
> >>> /s156/
> >>>
> >>>
>
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