And those of us in the last war remember learning to read using newspaper as
toilet paper -ah happy days not too comfy though
P going on about the war (1939 -45 one actually)
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Mark Weiss
Sent: 02 September 2010 07:03
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OED abandons print
I had this idea years ago for skipping a step and
just printing very short stories or poems
directly on the toilet paper. That way we
wouldn't need to carry books with us. And there'd always be a surprise.
At 01:34 AM 9/2/2010, you wrote:
>And should anyone doubt my profound last statement, below are just two of
>the many links that demonstrate the size od demand, from the expanding
>Canadian market for 'green tissue' (so delicate these North Americans), to
>Chinese warnings about running out. Yup, there's a future in publishing
>print, it just might have to set its sights a little lower.
>
>http://www.tissueworldmagazine.com/10JunJul/country-report-2.php
>
>http://encyclopedia.toiletpaperworld.com/toilet-paper-history/complete-hist
orical-timeline
>
>
>On 2 September 2010 06:14, David Bircumshaw
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > I think it'll survive as junk mail and chapbooks and vanity presses and
> > items for the discerning (i.e. rich and stupid) collector even longer.
> > Seriously, the more the demise of print is fanfared, excuse the
execrable
> > verb, the more gets published, and the more secure the supply base for
the
> > recycled toilet paper industry appears.
> >
> >
> > On 1 September 2010 17:50, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Print will survive in the form of braille for the foreseeable future
(note
> >> pun).
> >>
> >>
> >> At 12:46 PM 9/1/2010, you wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hal, you must be waiting for a soft furry bunny laptop(??).
> >>>
> >>> I prefer to reverse the order: "Print abandons the OED". Last I
looked
> >>> Print is not going anywhere - just getting
> a little lonely waiting for a new
> >>> kind of recovery to kick in.
> >>>
> >>> Alphabet tattoos anyone?
> >>>
> >>> Stephen V
> >>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>> Where my mom is revived with a new haptic & account et al
> >>>
> >>> --- On Wed, 9/1/10, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Subject: Re: OED abandons print
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 7:24 AM
> >>>
> >>> Wanna squash things flat? Hit 'em with
> >>> a laptop.
> >>>
> >>> Hal Serving the tri-state area.
> >>>
> >>> Halvard Johnson
> >>> ================
> >>>
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>> http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
> >>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> >>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> >>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> >>> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org>
> >>> *Obras Públicas*
> >>> *
> >>>
>
https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obras-publicas*
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org>*The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye
and
> >>> Other Sonnets*
> >>>
> >>>
>
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-
S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> >>>
> >>> *Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones*
> >>>
> >>>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/
ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
> >>>
> >>> *Tango Bouquet*
> >>> <
> >>>
>
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-
S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>>
>
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
> >>>
> >>> <
> >>>
>
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
> >>> >
> >>> *Theory of Harmony*
> >>> *
> >>>
> >>>
>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/th
eory1.pdf
> >>> *
> >>> *Rapsodie espagnole*
> >>> *
> >>>
> >>>
>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.p
df
> >>> *
> >>>
> >>> *Guide to the Tokyo Subway*
> >>> *
> >>>
> >>>
>
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_
3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *<
> >>>
>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.p
df
> >>> >The
> >>> Sonnet Project*
> >>> *
> >>>
> >>>
>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.p
df
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *<
> >>>
>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.p
df
> >>> >
> >>> G(e)nome*
> >>> *http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf*
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *Winter Journey*
> >>> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *Eclipse*
> >>> *http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html*
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> *The Dance of the Red Swan*
> >>> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html
> >>>
> >>> *Transparencies & Projections*
> >>> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html
> >>> *
> >>> *
> >>> * <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
> >>> *
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Patrick McManus <
> >>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > What happened to JO?
> >>> > Also cds are not much good at squashing things flat and keeping
flowers
> >>> > pressed !
> >>> > Still I admit the clay tablet edition had it's drawbacks-even if
fire
> >>> > resistant
> >>> > P concerned archivista
> >>> >
> >>> > -----Original Message-----
> >>> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >>> On
> >>> > Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> >>> > Sent: 01 September 2010 07:42
> >>> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> > Subject: Re: OED abandons print
> >>> >
> >>> > Well, the one-volume, Chris. I'd certainly concede that electronic
> >>> storage
> >>> > and retrieval devices, as long as they have competent operating
> >>> software,
> >>> > are better as mass information reference depositories but that in
> >>> itself
> >>> > sounds like a sentence from an operating manual poorly translated
from
> >>> the
> >>> > Chinese.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On 31 August 2010 11:06, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:18 +0100, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> >>> > > > None whatsoever, I imagine.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > True, but the shorter two volume edition will remain, from what
the
> >>> > > article says.
> >>> > > --
> >>> > > have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain
fog
> >>> > weird
> >>> > >
> >>> > > just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
> >>> > >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> >>> > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> >>> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >>> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> >>> > The Animal Subsides
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >>> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >>> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> >>> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> >> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
> >>
> >>
> >> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> >> particulars. Here is the poet alive in every
> sense of the word, and through
> >> every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
> >> fragments are like Chekhov’s short
> storiesthe more that gets left out, the
> >> more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
> >> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark
Weiss.
> >> His use of the fragment is both elegant and
> bafflingly clear, a pure musical
> >> threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> >> personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
> >>
> >> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> >> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >
>
>
>
>--
>(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
$16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
"What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a
lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the
poet alive in every sense of the word, and
through every one of his senses. Instead of
missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ fragments are
like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets
left out, the more they seem to contain… One can
hear echoes from all the various
ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its
core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment
is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
musical threnody…[it] opens a window, not only
into a mind, but a person, a personality, this
human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
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