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 >[log in to unmask] > Dan Pearlman Department of English University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 [Latest book: novel, BLACK FLAMES, White Pine Press, 1997] Tel.: (home) 401 453-3027 (office) 401 874-4659 Fax: 401 874-2580 Internet: [log in to unmask]