Friday, August 19, 2005

The Culture of Paper

I started writing my journal in Slashdot since last October, 2004. But as a matter of fact, I had been writing diary in my notebooks at that time, it never hit upon I was able to write my journal in Internet site like this.
I started writing my diary since April, 1999. Then two years ago it was already 37 notebooks- 30 sheets( 60 pages ), B4, so I started picking out relatively good stuffs in the hope of editing a book, which only counted 647 in 85 pages.
Some of them might be good, but most of all were just a scrible or something.
It's interesting, seems nobody saw it- my edited one, but I was careful enough not to mention what I am not supposed to write. I have only two copies, there's no guaranty my stuffs will be left for someone to see in the future. I had already noticed what I wrote down is different from what I came up in my mind. Self-sensored I think, though nobody seems to see.
Apart from that, in my high teens, I publicised my writings 3 times. In 1977 -1350 copies, in 1979 -1350 copies, the last one was in 1981 only 100 copies. Of course I hold a few copies of all of them, but almost all must be gone somewhere. Compared to the e-culture what we have now, the culture of paper seems very fragile.

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