By the way, when I facetiously mention
"the twenty-nothing and thirty-
nothing generation that has hardly even heard of
[EP]," I am certainly not implicating literate
grad students like Erin T. but rather the whole
[de-]generation of audiophilic, bibliophobic
digerati who are more likely to learn via the
Net--which is our current substitute for
Authority and even God--than from old-fart, my-
generational media like paper.
 
Dan P
 
>
>Dan Pearlman thought out loud:
>
>>>if the Cantos were to become available
>in hypertext format on the 'Net (infinite Borgesian
>links, etc.) we would see a tremendous upsurge in
>interest in EP among the twenty-nothing and thirty-
>nothing generation that has hardly even heard of
>him.  ND might be smart to offer, let's say, the
>first 30 Cantos in this format on the Net for
>free and hope to rope in buyers of a CD-hypertext
>version of the whole work.  Maybe even the book
>itself.<<
>
>Perfect. I hope they start tomorrow. I reckon we got the 20th century
>wrong. We might as well line up again at the starting gate.
>
>regards,
>
>Harold Rhenisch
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