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Carrol:
I agree, I agree! And Pound deserved every dime he got from royalties
while alive. It's the mortmain effect I quarrel with. Tom
On Nov 20, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Tom White wrote:
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>> Have to a little object to Professors Kibler's implication that an
>> ejournal is not real. I fear it's realer than a paper one, because it
>> at once comes under the omniverous maw of Google etc. and is
>> retrievable at will all over the world, it appears without fee.
>> Imagine how long it would have taken me, if all there were today were
>> paper journals, to read (note: FREE) Peter Dale Scott's extraordinary
>> history poem, "A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11." I just googled for
>> "flashpoint Scott" and got 300,000 hits; Peter's poem in flashpoint
>> was at the top of the first page. Woweee. Tom White
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> What is "real" depends to some extent on context. I'm retired and can
> afford to agree with Tom here. But I can imagine that for an untenured
> assistant professor (perhaps with a couple of kids already) "real"
> would
> mean whatever gave him/her a chance to survive!
>
> Carrol
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