On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Andrew Milne wrote:
> A marginal note on a poetics of e-poesie: there seems to be a
> distinctive kind of typo / techno dyslexia which introduces the
> occasional grammatical non-sequitur into what seems lucid enough as
> it goes. And yet once sent, so quickly returned to sender, there is
> no way of correcting the error. If you write to the grain of
> syntactic potential then deliberate involutions may be inseparable
> from techno wobbles. Perhaps an inventory of such slips might
> provide the beginnings of a psychopathology of mail-base life:
> parapraxes qua gremlinology. And a marginal note on the poetics of
> chit-chat: isn't there something a little uncanny about 'backchat
> channels' as the world disclosing language of one-to-one rather than
> one-to-anyone?
>
- Drew, I know just what you mean! like you I agnonise for hours over what
to wear to the party - and end up feeling slightly overdressed...
RC
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