Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:20:06 EDT
Subject: Gary Moore Website



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Jud. (Previously)

Gary, if you want me to create a website for you, (free of charge and nothing 
to pay in monthly fees etc., with an academically tasteful, 'restrained' 
design and under your editorial control of course -  just let me know - I'd 
have one up and running for you in no time. 



Dear Jud,
Sure. But let's make this fun! YOU be the editor! If you desire, you can make 
me an advisory editor. But I get bored at presenting my own views. You, when 
you are personal and serious, write truly great prose -- entertaining, 
enlightening, enlivening! This could be an opportunity for you to shine at 
your best! I feel old, jaded, and very pessimistic. You are still full of 
life, and need to preserve those great stories of yours like the time you 
climbed the hill in Italy to Alistair Crowley's house and found BEING AND 
TIME in the trash and Rilke's poetry in a more noble place, I hope. Now, 
don't you think that would be MUCH more interesting?
'Sincerely"
Gary C. Moore

Hi Gary,
The main thing in all this is to get YOUR stuff out in the wider public arena 
where a larger audience can enjoy it.

As I see it you would send pieces via private e-mails, and I would dress them 
up in HTLM pages and bingo.  I would create a contents page with various 
subject headings, and we could just keep adding your stuff as we go along.  
So yes, in that sense I would be acting as your webmaster/editor.  A lot of 
the stuff that you have written on the web over the years has been in the 
usual e-mail format of conversational type - Gary:...blah, blah, 
blah...Fred:...blah, blah, blah... -  Gary:...blah, blah, blah... sort of 
thing.  In fact many of your longer passages, which are addressed to other 
people, are capable of standing on their own, and the other person's text 
could be cut without damaging the gist of your flow.
Much of your writing can be read as "stand-alone" pieces, and in most cases 
the other guy's text can be edited out - UNLESS it is relevant to the context 
of your content or unless (like some of Allen's stuff) you wish to retain the 
interlocutor's input.  I could cut and paste lots of your current stuff 
straight onto the website: (but I would always seek your permission first) 

All I need to get this off the ground is a short bio and a couple of 
pictures, (if you wish to show your face of course) - take a peek at the 
splash page (the second page in) on another free website which I have just 
created for a poet and writer friend at:
 
<A HREF="http://nicholashancock.freewebspace.com/index.htm">http://nicholashancock.freewebspace.com/index.htm</A>

Yes, there are the annoying banners to contend with - but it's a small price 
to pay for the joy of reading your stuff, which I think is amongst some of 
the best on the net both in content and style.  The banners can be got rid of 
for a very small fee  - it costs me only $5.95 US per month ($1.49 per week)  
- which I gladly pay to get rid of the damn things for it is only the cost of 
a pint of beer per week!  There is no need for you to pay this at all - but I 
have a feeling that a GARY.C MOORE website would become well known very 
rapidly amongst the philosophical community, and would generate very high 
visitor levels, and you may wish to make it banner-free at that time.

A few suggestions for the Title of Site:

The GARY.C.MOORE PHILOSOPHY PAGES

MOORE ON METAPHYSICS.

MORE MOORE.

MORE AND MORE MOORE.

METAPHYSICS WITH MOORE.

Any other title suggestions are welcome from you or  any list member.



The bottom line?

All you have to do is what you do best  - writing brilliantly researched 
nuggets - I'll take care of all the website-stuff, and write an occasional 
intro piece, which will of course be completely free of my own person 
prejudices regarding the Monster of Marburg etc. OK, I might throw in a 
couple of narrative pieces of my own as light relief.  Have you ever read my 
"Gwrach?" ['witch' in Welsh]
I mentioned it in a post to Anthony and said that I'd post it, and then 
forgot - I'll post it to the list later.



So if you send me 

(1) A couple of photos (as JPG e-mail attachments)
(2) A short bio.
(3) Three or four pieces from your archives on any subject you wish so I can 
get started.

I can have it up and functioning in a couple of days.

Regards,

Jud.

 



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