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fayefaye
09-30-2003, 06:46 AM
do u know who wrote that? it's on the inside cover of ray bradbury's F451, but i just can't remember who said it.
Sindhu
10-17-2003, 04:38 AM
The exact words would be Daniel Quinn's at a 1997 seminar "If they give you lined paper, write sideways." But the Spanish poet Jimenez said pretty much the same thng, "if they give you ruled paper write the other way" earlier, so maybe Quinn was paraphrasing.
den
10-17-2003, 09:29 AM
I use graph paper myself for notes... :D
Sindhu
10-17-2003, 09:56 AM
Now, there's an idea! :D
fayefaye
10-19-2003, 01:13 AM
jimenez. got it. thanks.
AbdoRinbo
10-20-2003, 06:33 PM
You should read Gravity's Rainbow, den.
fayefaye
10-24-2003, 09:29 AM
who's that by?
AbdoRinbo
10-24-2003, 03:18 PM
The mystifying Thomas Pynchon.