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[Jeremy Hunsinger]

>
>> Just my opinion as a techno-addict.
>
> I wonder about that, myself.  Given my recent musings on this whole  
> concept,
> I wonder if I'm a recovering techno-addict or an up-and-coming  
> Luddite.
> Will have to do the differential analysis sometime to find out.  :)

On my way back from Turin last year, I had an interesting albeit   
short conversation with a catholic scholar about the mental processes  
of composition and our phenomenological experiences of writing using  
various technics.   He pointed out to me that he is much more  
creative and interesting in his prose when he writes with pen and  
paper.   The claim was that his   writing hand was much more  
connected to his creative brain than using both hands in composition  
on a computer keyboard.  My experience is somewhat different, given  
my usual tortured prose, I can be very productive at a computer  
screen, but when push comes to shove in editing my work, i almost  
always print out a draft, triple spaced, and edit by hand.   I'm  
wondering how this might tie into the concern about productivity and  
quality.

We all seem to know that we get a tickle in our pleasure centers when  
we are included in a conversation, but are there greater and lesser  
pleasures to pursue, will the pleasure of doing the 'great work'  
outweigh the pleasure of the next IM for those that become aware that  
there may be different sorts of pleasure, or will plurality of little  
joys win out....  thoughts?
>

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jeremy hunsinger
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Pratt Institute
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