On the other hand, as a handicapped user of the typewriter and then the
computer, I found that my ability to write and express myself improved a
thousandfold once I had a computer because of the greater ease with which I
could rewrite and organize thoughts and content without retyping endless
drafts.
 
Cheers, Louis
 
At 01:46 PM 01/17/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Edward Said, in his address to the MLA at the recent convention in Chicago,
>suggested that computers are making students lazy lightweights. Typewriters,
>and perhaps better yet, pen and ink, helped scholars extend their thoughts,
>and get it right the first time. If one can cut and paste, then the first
>time through can be rougher than rough.  And how many can direct their
>attention by an enquiry for extended periods? Where are the hungry students,
>a scholar asked in the Chronicle last year. Where are the enquiring minds?
>Without these, Pound and Pound studies really will do little more than clear
>the boundary of the 21st century.
>
>Robert E Kibler, PhD
>English and Humanities
>Valley City State University
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Louis H. Silverstein
Literary Anthropologist (specializing in H.D. and her circle as well as
things mysterious)
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"Books determine, have determined, will determine our lives, as readers and
writers, and for this, let us give thanks."  Lawrence Clark Powell.  BOOKS
WEST SOUTHWEST  (1957: 37)