of quoting poems in my blog
raising the tone
but i don't run across
enough hightoned quotables
so i thought i'd try
random joycequotes
eg yesterday:
"Pause. If we were all suddenly somebody else. Far away a donkey brayed." (randomJAJ)
but this collapsed two paragraph breaks:
"Pause. / If we were all suddenly somebody else. / Far away a donkey brayed." (randomJAJ)
and on rereading it this morning
i realised the slashes
(or something) were needed
and added them
now this simple edit
is semantically byzantine:
should the rss feed signal a change?
should the rss item be redated from
created-time to updated-time?
suppose i want to discuss the change
(as i'm doing now)
shouldn't i
ideally
be able to link
before and after views
eg waybacked at archive.com?
but the
story
this edit tells:
person writes text
person dislikes poetry of re-read text
person edits formatting
is a special case of:
person writes text
person dislikes X about re-read text
person edits X
which is one of the
most basic 'stories'
in general wordprocessing
and only becomes controversial
complex
because a publication-step
was added
between error and edit
semi-live publication
being characteristic
with blogs
