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2026-07-23 03:57 UTC

That's not an uncommon thing either. Oscar Wilde, a hero of mine kinda (in the same "kinda" way as another problematical pop idol, David Bowie) was known as a dandy and a witty man-about-town before he got to writing. But I suspect that any such person, if they feel themselves to be good enough with words and storytelling, eventually gets to wondering if they really shouldn't be investing in blank paper and a nice pen or a nifty typewriter. I confess I have yet to feel as if the computer is quite the tool for writing. Partly though that's the influence of folks in our headspace, or folks dropping in for a visit, for whom a typewriter is high technology. I think Bill Lee would rather face the murder charge than deal with what a computer looks like in Interzone. The typewriters are bad enough. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 04:03

Writing on a public social medium is a little different from what I'd call "writing" in general; perhaps I'm being starchy. I feel altogether too conscious of the ephemerality while at the same time reminding myself that I could always make it less ephemeral if I put my mind to it. There must be folks who simply auto-archive their own posts regularly and all that. I have limited myself by sticking to an end-user sort of computing experience. But also...everything I've written has been in the moment. I have felt a bit like William Shirer writing bulletins from Berlin or Paris, watching in dismay as fascism crept into everything he'd come to know and love. I hope that I have furnished a bit of perspective on events and their contexts. If events play out as I hope they will, the things about which I've written will pass away. (cont'd)

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