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Monday, October 08, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/08/books/08OROU.html Commentary: Computers Invite a Tangled Web of Complications By P. J. O'ROURKE For reasons of high aesthetic principle, I do not write on a computer. Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory. All writers know how hard it is to practice tough love on the children of our verbiage. Kick the silly, labored metaphor out of the house....
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