Comments on: Ars Longa, Data Brevis http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/ I go many places Wed, 23 May 2012 07:47:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Malcolm http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/comment-page-1/#comment-88540 Malcolm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:17:19 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/#comment-88540 Hi Salim, Forgive me, but actually those two words were used not in the same sentence, but adjacent ones. There's nothing I'd rebut in what you've said -- I lean heavily on the editing capabilities my computer permits, and I do very little writing with a pen these days, save for the occasional crossword. Hi Salim,

Forgive me, but actually those two words were used not in the same sentence, but adjacent ones.

There’s nothing I’d rebut in what you’ve said — I lean heavily on the editing capabilities my computer permits, and I do very little writing with a pen these days, save for the occasional crossword.

]]> By: Salim Ismail http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/comment-page-1/#comment-88513 Salim Ismail Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:16:13 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/#comment-88513 Although I love the thought that you can put 'avatistic' and 'evanescent' in the same sentence, I'm going to suggest that this works partly because of the typing/backspacing/editing that electronic media affords. It allows us to edit a lot more afterwards (I'm sure you'll wanna rebut this, but still...) I can't remember the last time I wrote anything aside from my signature. In my case, the keyboard is hugely helpful because I'm left-handed and writing requires me to push the pen across paper which really is a pain. Salim Ismail Although I love the thought that you can put ‘avatistic’ and ‘evanescent’ in the same sentence, I’m going to suggest that this works partly because of the typing/backspacing/editing that electronic media affords. It allows us to edit a lot more afterwards (I’m sure you’ll wanna rebut this, but still…)

I can’t remember the last time I wrote anything aside from my signature. In my case, the keyboard is hugely helpful because I’m left-handed and writing requires me to push the pen across paper which really is a pain.

Salim Ismail

]]> By: Charles http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/comment-page-1/#comment-88454 Charles Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:02:50 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/#comment-88454 When I first came to Korea, I didn't have an email account. Back then, most people I knew only had email accounts through their universities, etc., and when I graduated, that went out the window. So every week I wrote these massive missives to my parents, using an old-fashioned ink-dispensing utensil on dead-tree media. I wrote hundreds of pages of letters. I know this because some years ago my mother photocopied every single one of these letters, put them in a huge three-ring binder, and gave it to me as a present so I would not forget what life was like when I first got here. This link to the past is very precious to me. Sure, I still have emails that I have written over the years, but like you said, it's not such an easy thing to just "flip through" emails like it is to flip through letters. I sometimes miss the old days of handwritten letters. This nostalgia usually lasts until I actually try to write something of substantial length by hand. Then the pain and cramping in my fingers overrides the longing for ye olde days. When I first came to Korea, I didn’t have an email account. Back then, most people I knew only had email accounts through their universities, etc., and when I graduated, that went out the window. So every week I wrote these massive missives to my parents, using an old-fashioned ink-dispensing utensil on dead-tree media. I wrote hundreds of pages of letters. I know this because some years ago my mother photocopied every single one of these letters, put them in a huge three-ring binder, and gave it to me as a present so I would not forget what life was like when I first got here. This link to the past is very precious to me.

Sure, I still have emails that I have written over the years, but like you said, it’s not such an easy thing to just “flip through” emails like it is to flip through letters. I sometimes miss the old days of handwritten letters. This nostalgia usually lasts until I actually try to write something of substantial length by hand. Then the pain and cramping in my fingers overrides the longing for ye olde days.

]]> By: JK http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/comment-page-1/#comment-88215 JK Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:18:06 +0000 http://malcolmpollack.com/2008/06/27/ars-longa-data-brevis/#comment-88215 I can come close to feeling that <em>I can assure you</em>, it'll always be out there somewhere. That's why I sign, JK I can come close to feeling that I can assure you, it’ll always be out there somewhere. That’s why I sign,

JK

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