Eric Andersen writes:
>As Ben Patterson often puts is: If Ken Friedman didn't exist we would have
>to invent him.
To me, that sounds like a sincere compliment, i.e. if Ken were not worth having
around, why would one invent him?
Sol Nte writes:
>Okay, Ken did annoy a few people with his netiquette notes and rants against
>internet petitions but he more than made up for that with his posts on
>Fluxus History etc.
At least one person (me) appreciated Ken's netiquette sugestions. I can recall none of
them that were illogical, uninformed or not sensible. I'm sorry Ken had to waste his
time to do these things, but I was always glad when someone spoke up about them.
Anyway,
when I was in Chicago, a friend showed me a copy of Emmett Williams' "Sweethearts"
book, published by Something Else Press, that he found for a dollar! It was a
beautiful story/poem. Every page (read back to front like a Hebrew book) had words
comprised entirely from the letters from the string "sweethearts" used in order, each
line of each page used parts from the string.
For example, one page might be (view with fixed-spaced font):
s he
h a s
a
sweet
h a t
th a ts
we t
And the story builds on the tale of these two lovers and their ears, their tears, the
sea, what they hear, etc. Very nice book. I am glad I saw it.
-Josh Ronsen
http://www.nd.org/jronsen
ps: For the 39 words projects, I just finished my story last night. The beginnings of
my original piece didn't stand up to the submissions I have from Seth Tisue, Daniel
Russell, Joseph Zitt and Linda Woolman. My second attempt doesn't stand up either, but
now it is in a strained crouching position...
I thank every one for their interest in this project.
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