[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Water-shedding

[Phil Graham <phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au>]

Ahhh ... sorry. I've been so used to listening to discourses about the 
death of the writer, the linearity of text, the obsolescence of the book, 
etc etc etc, that I didn't here the prosody of "yeah, right", the 
double-positive of ironic negation (or something) ...

8(   < = two fried eggs on face, no cheese.

regards,
Phil

At 10:03 PM 25/09/00 -0400, Joshua Goldberg wrote:
>It was a slightly tongue in cheek statement.  More than slightly.  Online,
>nobody can hear you nuance.
>
>I myself spend hours each day building virtual sandcastles.  I can't write
>well, and I wish I could.
>
>I am fully aware that the art I create is impermanent- far more so than
>simple words.  I worry about the CD-ROM as an archival format; I hope he is
>also keeping copies on paper.
>
>I always forgive questions.   They beat flames any day. ;) <--please note
>smiley denoting bemused forgiveness and ingratiating humor.
>
>best
>
>j
>
>on 9/25/00 10:25 AM, Phil Graham at phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au wrote:
>
> > At 08:34 AM 25/09/00 -0400, Joshua Goldberg wrote:
> >> "Anyone working as a digital artist is building castles made of sand."
> >>
> >> -- Jaron Lanier.
> >>
> >> I suppose Alan Sondheim can be forgiven for being mostly a writer.
> >
> > Why would a person need "forgiveness" for being a writer? Are you
> > dispensing forgiveness to all us writers? Would you also forgive musicians
> > too, since they are even more prehistoric than writers?
>  <...>
>
>--
>Josh Goldberg
>josh@goldbergs.com
>
>"It's OK, my sheet's got a hole in it!"
>
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