(on Young's "private language")

Aimee Farr aimee.farr at pobox.com
Tue Jun 12 07:07:18 PDT 2001


Bill Stewart was the dog that bit me:

> >Anybody care to cast a lot for their picks of Net/new media
> written in the
> >spirit of gentil intellection?
>
> John's writing may lead to some speculation about whether he
> did a little too much James Joyce in the 60s,
> but it's worth reading a much higher fraction of the time than
> most Internet writers, and when he's making stuff up
> it's almost always creative and interesting.
>
> On the other hand, it's less clear whether *you're*
> asking about people who write in a gently intellectual spirit
> or whether you're talking about goyish intellectuals here...

Touche. I do not aspire beyond my station, Bill.

I meant media (whatever form) that is: thought-provoking, rather than *just*
factual, written for a reasonably broad audience....

First Monday usually makes me ponder on something.

~Aimee





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