Responsa Literature:
Partial Repiles to Sacttered Questions
J. R. Carpenter
Luckysoap.com
An Aerogramme from India, 1982.
Why is it that everyone I know lives in New York?
Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 B.C. - 18 A.D.
"Is the place any token of the author?"
"indicat auctorem locus?"
Ovid, EX PONTO, I. VII.
From: "Gladys Fleishman"
gladysf42@hotmail.com
To: "J. R. Carpenter"
carpenter@luckysoap.com
this is to show off how far grandfather and i have progressed.
i print in lower case to regain some speed.
linda says we are good students, what do you think?
i must have pressed the wrong something,but i think i am back on track.
we received your note and we will still call in a week or so to tell you of our spring schedule, in case you wish to come.
g and g
Me: Hey, how come this anonmous ftp thing doesn't work?
Tech: You spelled anonymous wrong.
Me: Again.
Me: I heard about this thing called pine for reading email.
Do you know about that?
Tech: Yeah.
Me: Well, how do I get it?
Tech: Pine is for weenies.
Me: I'm a weenie.
Tech: vi editor rules.
Me: I want pine.
"A brief history of the Internet as I know it so far"
J. R. Carpenter 2003. (excerpt)
"Notions of the Archival in Memory and Deportment"
J. R. Carpenter 1997. (excerpt)
"Digital Crustaceans v.0.2: Homesteading on the Web"
Ingrid Bachmann at Gallery Articule, Montréal, Québec, April 4 - May 4 2003.
"Nothing is more occult than the way letters, under the auspices of unimaginable carriers, circulate through the weird mess of civil wars; but whenever, owing to that mess, there was some break in our correspondence, Tamara would act as if she ranked deliveries with ordinary natural phenomena such as the weather or tides, which human affairs could not affect, and she would accuse me of not answering her, when if fact I did nothing by write to her and think of her during those months - despite my many betrayals."
Vladimir Nabokov,
Speak, Memory
Nomad Web: Sleeping beauty awakes, by Ingrid Bachmann the electronic version of The Virtual Community, by Howard Rheingold http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html A Vernacular Web, by Olia Lialina http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
Other Internet Writings by J. R. Carpenter
"Ingrid Bachmann: Digital Crustaceans v.0.2: Homesteading on the Web" "A brief history of the Internet as I know it so far" "A Little Talk about Reproduction"
THANK YOU
J.R. Carpenter :: Luckysoap.com
