>From time to time people say that they're amazed / disappointed etc. by
the nature or content of discussion on this list, or in other ways imply
that they'd expected / hoped for something else. Without promising any
quick fixes, can I ask WHAT people - including the expressers of concern,
but not excluding the others - wd like to see / or even participate in?
And to start the ball rolling: I've welcomed those occasions when
listmembers have given little reviewettes of books / readings - to share
the information / experience as it were. I'd like to see more of those,
and to hear more of listmembers current enthusiasms (even away from the -
er - "narrow" confines of poetry).
Then again, I'm always pleased when folk stick a bit of real *poetry* on
the list. Would welcome more of that. And would hope that said poetry
might (in some cases) lead to more discussion, comment, poetry etc. I know
I've got this habit of writing all over poems on the list so's to make new
takes - I hope it's apparent that no disrespect to the original work is
intended by thus graffiting, and that there's no sense that "my" version
is intended as "the last word" - anyone can play. There was an ambition, I
guess, to induce a note of humour by way of that process - but it
obviously hasn't achieved it...
Well, there it is - I'm reluctant to embark on a "search for e-identity"
on behalf of what is, I hope, an evolving list - but any more takes on
what / where the list should be would be welcome. Only concern is to
include IN rather than include OUT possibilities.
By the end of the month the list should be accessible by way of Chadwyck
Healey's Literature Online (LION) project - I'm anticipating not a rush,
but a continuation of the trickle of new members and archive scanners.
That doesn't affect the present (proposed) discussion, other than perhaps
implying a context of increased openness, withour any move towards grand
generalisation.
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Richard Caddel
Durham University Library, Stockton Rd., Durham DH1 3LY, UK
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"Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write."
- Basil Bunting
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