| The Historian 2005-05-30, 8:32 pm |
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parrthenon@cs.com wrote:
quote:
> Finally, Mr. Blair claims that the stuff published on this forum
> is "writing." It is obvious enough that the word "writing" has a
> number of connotations. Is his stuff -- his preposterous queries and my
> 40-word-a-mintue responses -- writing?
This is actually an interesting question. I've actually met people who
assumed "The Story of Poor Little Hornswaggle", a piece of nonsense I
posted a couple of years ago, is actually an important work in my
literary portfolio. I think my giving the post a title, as if it were
an important article or essay, was the reason. Do you know anyone else
who gives newsgroup posts titles, Larry?
quote:
> When I speak about writing on Keres-Botvinnik, I mean the same
> thing as writing about, say, the late Arnold Denker. Nothing I put
> here could be called writing about GM Denker, though I have mentioned
> him on many an occasion over the years. This is the electronic
> graveyard. My "writing" about GM Denker is what has appeared in books
> and in numerous articles.
>
> In that sense I have not written on Keres-Botvinnik 1948 and have no
> intention of doing so in the future unless some archive becomes
> available.
>
> This distinction between the Net and hard copy is not
> completely ironclad. People put books online that will later appear in
> hard-copy; the same goes for articles. But the Parser's stuff here is
> not writing; and everything except what I published on Winter and a
> couple of other things online has not been writing in the sense that a
> published author would use the word.
Your Winter piece wasn't writing, it was therapy.
quote:
> In the evident sense used here, Parser Blair has likely never
> written a thing on chess, unless one counts those unreadable letters in
> the old Chess Notes. He make (sic) think he is "writing" on this forum but
> only an egomaniac could imagine that.
Dr. Blair published an article in the BCM about 15 years ago. It's only
been mentioned about a dozen times, Larry.
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