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-- 3) Let's play with this a bit...:

Still being heavily sorted and qualified, these are the fun but ultimately irrelevant aspects to the collections - methods and tricks I'd like to emply in the physical implementation of the to-be collection.

The portfolio requires no such gewgaws - a staple in the corner, no folders or duotangs.

It is where we get to the chapbook that things get potentially interesting
A black slave was worth 100 dinars and if he was a good shepherd it rose to 200 dinars.  One who shaped arrows and fledged them was worth 300 dinars and an excellent archer, 400 dinars.  A reciter of poems fetched the sum of 500 dinars.  A gifted poet was priced at 1000 dinars.
- Ibn Kallikan, 1842-71; Volume 3. page 626.

Callimachus was librarian at Alexandria, and uttered the useful maxim megalon biblion megalon kakon "a big book is a big evil".
 

The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed

A book, published in 1984, which was supposedly the first ever completely written by a computer. Mostly little poems, clearly highly tweaked by human hand. The software which generated it was called Racter and is still held up as a model of early AI. A sample poem follows:

More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity.
I need it more than I need pork or lettuce or cucumber.
I need it for my dreams.

*  rowan would rather not waste any time

contact:

if people like to use computer technology
for purposes of communication
inbetween bouts of downloading pornography
and making it

pseudo_intellectual at hotmail dot com

How to Fight Loneliness and Point of No Reply

going on first, about the reader, slave costs, hello world, quick brown fox, lorem ipsum, etaoin shrdlu, xyzzy, "aw bjyeah / oh baby." thanks, buddhist bumper stickers, pass the cookies. @eof

Rowan Lipkovits
Or winks pivotal -
two spark violin?
Law knit provisio;
writ spook anvil.
Work vain pistol,
wink plot savior,
slop know trivia.
Oval know spirit?
It nil pork avows!
(Spit ink - oral vow)

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