Mightier than the pen
I’ve been a writer for 40 years, and my attitude toward writing machines has never been simple. Right now I’m sitting in a quiet one-room cabin in the Maine woods, writing in natural light with a fountain pen into a bound blank book. I could have done that in the 19th century—or 5,000 years a...
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| description | I’ve been a writer for 40 years, and my
attitude toward writing machines has
never been simple. Right now I’m sitting
in a quiet one-room cabin in the
Maine woods, writing in natural light
with a fountain pen into a bound blank
book. I could have done that in the 19th
century—or 5,000 years ago, if you trade
the fountain pen for a quill or stylus. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/559942022-09-26T13:36:20Z Mightier than the pen Haldeman, Joe MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies Haldeman, Joe Haldeman, Joe I’ve been a writer for 40 years, and my attitude toward writing machines has never been simple. Right now I’m sitting in a quiet one-room cabin in the Maine woods, writing in natural light with a fountain pen into a bound blank book. I could have done that in the 19th century—or 5,000 years ago, if you trade the fountain pen for a quill or stylus. 2010-06-29T18:59:09Z 2010-06-29T18:59:09Z 2009-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalItem 0001-0782 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55994 Haldeman, Joe. “Mightier than the pen.” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, issue 12 (Dec. 2009). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1216-3590 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1610252.1610279 Communications of the ACM Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery Joe Haldeman |
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