I too got garbage in the form of letters and symbols! I thought about complaining but simply deleted. My advice to all of you--just send URL's when avaiable, send no attachments, and ask if and how people want to receive things first. A simple, straight forward policy. Louis H. Silverstein At 08:40 AM 8/19/99 -0400, you wrote: >Well, I am still confounded by the unwillingness of those who asked >for the play (and presumeably received it) to enter the fray with some >intelligent comment about the play... though the point is well-made, and >I apologise for NOT sending the URL, which I did not have when I >first started sending the play out to those asking for it. I am new to >the Net myself and didn't realise that the attachments were causing >such problems. Apart from Alexander asking me to re-send, I never >heard from anyone complaining that they could not open the attachment, >so I obviously assumed (wrongly) that it worked. Once again, I apologise >for this. For those of you whose patience hasn't been worn so thin as >to make any approach to this play anathema, you can read the complete >text at my site... > >URL http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=129973 > >There is also a play about Eisenstein, who was - I believe - the cinema's >equivalent to Pound. Their ideas re: ideogrammatic method and montage >are strikingly similar, though their temperaments are completely different. >If Pound is the father of modern poetry, Eisenstein is the father of modern >cinema... and both for exactly the same reasons. You will also find >the work-in-progress, PAIDEUMA, at the same site and a selection >of poems, SINGING THE SNAKE, which I wrote from my years of >living among the Pintupi (an Aboriginal tribe) in Central Australia. >Please let me know if the URL number doesn't work!!! > >Best regards >Stoneking >. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 8:14 AM >Subject: Re: the Stoneking Play > > >> Different systems handle large files in different ways. >> >> When I receive a very large file attached to an email message, the mail >system >> on the *server* gets corrupted: a flag that needs to be reset is not reset >> until the email is downloaded and deleted. Until I download and delete the >> offending message, all of my email messages continue to appear as unread, >over >> and over and over, until I phone technical support. If they happen to be >> busy, I must wait on hold for longer than it would take to read a short >> one-act play. >> >> I don't mind Billy Stoneking's attempts to promote his work on this list >(as >> long as it relates to Pound, which it does) but would ask him to use the >> etiquette followed worldwide for such lists as this: no attachments. Send >us >> the URL. >> >> I began reading his play but had to set it aside because of other pressing >> obligations. I'd reached the point where the young female psychiatrist >> arrives. Divertente, I thought, these skewed planes of consciousness. But >his >> paideuma posting from last week gave me an excedrin headache. God, how I >hate >> that sort of prose! >> >> Tim Romano >> >> --Come my cantilations, >> Let us dump our hatreds into one bunch and be done with them. >> Louis H. Silverstein Literary Anthropologist (specializing in H.D. and her circle as well as things mysterious) (e-mail: [log in to unmask]) "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)