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07-12-2006, 08:24 AM

Wolf , I have been giving some thought to this . The fact is that I have never learnt to type formally on any sort of machine . I learnt how to write with a quill , and my teachers always insisted on us leaving a space the width of our forefinger between the last letter of the sentence and the full stop . And the another forefinger between the full stop and the first letter of the next sentence .

I may seem like a sad anachronism , but at least the finger spaces are those corresponding to my old skinny kid fingers . Imagine if I wrote using the fat bloated fingers I now possess . It would look like this . Terrible . Even worse . Far worse .

Footfootfoot , you are right of course , but to be fair to old Clodfobble , Cervantes did try to blur the lines between the writer and the fictional characters he created . Mise en abyme and all that , if you will excuse my French .

07-12-2006, 08:24 AM	#7
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Wolf , I have been giving some thought to this . The fact is that I have never learnt to type formally on any sort of machine . I learnt how to write with a quill , and my teachers always insisted on us leaving a space the width of our forefinger between the last letter of the sentence and the full stop . And the another forefinger between the full stop and the first letter of the next sentence . I may seem like a sad anachronism , but at least the finger spaces are those corresponding to my old skinny kid fingers . Imagine if I wrote using the fat bloated fingers I now possess . It would look like this . Terrible . Even worse . Far worse . Footfootfoot , you are right of course , but to be fair to old Clodfobble , Cervantes did try to blur the lines between the writer and the fictional characters he created . Mise en abyme and all that , if you will excuse my French .