File spoon-archives/list-proposals.archive/list-p_1995/list-p_Jul.95, message 8


Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 20:52:01 -0700
From: knowware-AT-mindlink.bc.ca (tom walker)
Subject: Re: What happened?


>What happened? The discussion just stopped. Why? I think it's because we 
>sort of ...

No, I took it to be the long holiday weekend. Who wants to get watermelon 
juice on their keyboard, anyway? My idea was just to start up a list right 
here. I was thinking a small literary magazine. I've even got a name for it 
-- mouthwash. 

So anyway, the thing is it would be a <secret> list in that there wouldn't 
be any announcement about "subscribe yourfirstname yourlastname" to 
majorjeff-AT-etc.etc.etc. But it would have to get around by word of mouth, 
like "hey there's this kind of underground small literary magazine happening 
on the list-proposal list." The grabber is it's a "post-literary" magazine. 
Get it? It's post=after and it's post=send-it-to-the-list (don't say it's 
dumb-as-a-fence=post). Here we are getting in on the ground floor of a new 
genre and we don't even know what it is yet.

Some of the stuff you see -- some "hypertext novel" or this or that -- I 
don't know. Maybe they've got the general idea but no pace, no diction. Fuck 
the general idea. We've gotta find the pace and the diction and let the 
general idea bury the general idea.

All in favour?

And what do you think of the name, mouthwash?

Opposed?

Tom Walker
knoW Ware Communications
knoWWare-AT-mindlink.bc.ca
http://mindlink.net/knoWWare/


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