[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[Skip Fox]

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and wait for our lives to return, like staring into an empty mirror. (Some
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what kind of gratification is there to be received?

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
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On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:19 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:





Hal,
yes, hyperlinks ensure I get randomness and sidetracking in my e-diet, every
day. And I probably get exposed to thousands of unusual words (sic transit
gloria mundi) in a year's time.  
But it's not the same experience you get fumbling through pages of a
dictionary. I think in those analog encounters I take more time with the odd
entry, looking over the subdefintions, and forms of the word, roots,
etymology, etc. 99 out of 100 times I Google for a 'quick defintion', I get
it and get out. But I feel there is something lacking in that instant
gratification. Call me a backsliding Luddite, but I'm starting to make a
more conscious effort to reach for the cumbersome unabridged dictionary that
was for a time gathering dust on the shelf behind my screen.
Finnegan

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From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
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Finnegan, you're sounding like someone who's never gone 

web-surfing. Losing randomness? Losing sidetracking? No way.

 

Hal

 

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On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:40 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:





At the risk of old-fogeyism, I want to mourn the declining use of the print
dictionary (or encyclopedia, for that matter).
Nine times out of ten, flipping thru pages, trying to find the particular
word/entry I was looking for (and sometimes the 
alphabetic sequence would escape me), I'd stumble across a strange or
unusual word (a new world, one might say). 
You lose some of that randomness, the sidetracking that goes on, with the
online versions. 
Finnegan

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