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     And there are things that I write, largely for the world of unix
     machines and the usenet... I spent some time attacking Thomas Disch
     and then wound up spending a lot of time defending him when I realized
     how silly most peoples complaints were about his work.  I've been
     arguing with a standard issue liberal at Stanford here, who calls
     himself Dove (I don't remember if I ever mentioned this to you, but
     for possibly silly reasons, I am called Doom, specifically
     doom@leland.stanford.edu, should you ever come up with internet access
     somehow) about some local issues like the speech codes at Stanford
     intended to prohibit racist attacks.  I've also been trying to write
     on various subjects (really all subjects) in a single file (the
     "doomfile") which is not read-protected (so that anyone at Stanford
     can look at it).  I've been using a format that's supposed to be
     somewhat hypertext-like -- somewhere between poetry and a flow chart. 
     I think it's an interesting project, though for the amount of work I
     put into it, it would be nice if there was someway of actually
     publishing it so as to make some money off of it... the trouble is
     that it really does need to be in electronic format so you can use
     search commands on it to jump around (and currently, it's set up with
     GNU Emacs in mind as the editor to be used to view it): so printouts,
     paper versions aren't really good enough.  If I ever get around to it,
     I'll down load a version to a 5-1/4 IBM floppy and see what you think
     of it (it's up to arond 300K now). 
       


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