I am (which should be obvious if you know the work in question :-)
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 05:04:17PM -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> Are you talking about Perec?
>
> Shel
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: John Francis
> >
> > His most famous work isn't an opus that you could find
> > stuck with a palindromic tag - far from it.
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:23:41PM -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> > > Personally I prefer Perec's palindrome
> > >
> > > Shel
> > >
> > >
> > > > [Original Message]
> > > > From: Bob W
> > >
> > > > molly blooms monologue in ulysses consists of several paragraphs which
> > > each
> > > > consists of one sentence and the monologue itself contains no
> punctuation
> > > > marks other than the final full stop it being an interior monologue
> and
> > > > stream of consciousness and all although quite how somebodys thoughts
> > > > arrange themselves into paragraphs punctuated or not I dont really
> know
> > > but
> > > > what I do know is this Joyce would have had a hard time writing it
> these
> > > > days because whenever Bill Gates thinks youve made a grammatical
> error he
> > > > insists on trying to correct it the literary philistine swine but
> maybe
> > > > Jimmy J would have writ Ulysses on Unixes I certainly think he would
> have
> > > > felt at home in the world of email and texts where punctuation and
> > > sentences
> > > > count for nothing and all communication is a direct stream of whatever
> > > > nonsense is in peoples heads at the time they write it maybe I should
> ask
> > > my
> > > > neighbour who is a cousin of Joyces mate Sam Becket and has an amazing
> > > early
> > > > edition of Ulysses all decorated and encrusted with stuff by Joyce
> himself
> > > > with his own fair hand but now Im sick of trying to write like this
> and
> > > ask
> > > > myself will I stop and yes I said yes I will Yes.
> > >
>
