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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) When Did SFF Get Too Big?
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:40:42 -0700
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On 9/28/2024 6:33 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:09:33 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
> Nicoll) wrote:
> 
>>
>> https://reactormag.com/when-did-sff-get-too-big/
> 
> 
> My desk had a hole for an inkwell, but we kept our ink in the bottles
> it came in.
> 
> Some people the same age as me find writing exhausting because their
> schools used pencils or ballpoints for their penmanship exercises, and
> they learned to engrave their writing, pressing hard enough to make
> fifteen carbons.
> 
> If I pressed too hard while writing, I broke my pen point and had to
> spend two cents of my candy money to buy another one.
> 
> I've been addicted to keyboards for well over six decades, but I can
> still jot down a legible note whenever I please.  And I please nearly
> every day.  Spouse consideres writing his name in a guestbook an
> intolerable chore.
> 
My writing is completely block print now.  But quick and _legible_ block 
print.  I've actually gotten many complements over the years on how 
readable my writing is.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.