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Subject:Re: "All you need is a pencil" From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Sat, 12 Nov 1994 09:12:22 -0700
Boy can I second Judiths comments on this! I don't expect to ever be
another Shakespeare, but the computer certainly makes writing a much more
pleasant activity.
On Thu, 10 Nov 1994, Judith Grobe Sachs wrote:
> It's quite true that Shakespeare and his quill (or Baron
> What's-His-Name, if he's really the one who wrote Shakespeare's
> works) did far better than I could ever do, but hold on a bit. I
> know I do far better composing on a computer where revisions are
> easy and where the stuff that I've got right stays right no matter
> how many times I change the paragraph before it than I ever did
> with pen and paper. I'm old enough to have started in the days
> before computers, and believe me, it got really tedious literally
> cutting and pasting paper to move stuff around! (Not to mention
> the big callus I used to have on my second finger!) :-)
> JGS
> Judith Grobe Sachs (312) 996-3758, fax 996-6834
> judygs -at- uic -dot- edu Computer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
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