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The Sony Reader

The Sony Reader has arrived. If you follow the link you can see a demonstration. About the size of a paperback it has enough memory to hold the contents of around 80 books, and it will take an extra memory card if that’s not enough for you. You can also play mp3 and audio files [...]



Modernism II

The Russian Futurist writer Mayakovsky wrote:
In order to write about the tenderness of love, take bus number 7 from Lubyansky Square to Nogin Square. The appalling jolting will serve to throw into relief for you, better than anything else, the charm of a life transformed.
Mechanization, the Futurists believed, shaped not only perception (as it did [...]



Moblogging again

Yesterday’s post might need some explanation. One of the reasons I changed to WordPress was so that I could post by email from a mobile phone. And as you can see from the formatting of the post it isn’t completely satisfactory. Still, it worked. . .if you can learn to ignore the odd = sign.
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About Writing:

"There are many lines that could be spared from the book you are reading," she said, her voice primly firm and dogmatic. "I must 'a' missed 'em," he announced. "What I read was the real goods. It was all lighted up an' shining, an' it shun right into me an' lighted me up inside, like the sun or a searchlight. That's the way it landed on me, but I guess I ain't up much on poetry, miss." Jack London, Martin Eden (Martin and Ruth, discussing the poet Martin called "Swineburne")

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