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Dan Visel
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I make books at Circumference Books, and I work at the Internet Archive.
In addition to all the other things he does, he blurbed one of our books! circumferencebooks.com/book/pee-poe...
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Also the place where Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire! I think?
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am also really interested in this!
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I've come around! I think those lines are three trochees and then a dactyl, as much fun as it is to read them like Hiawatha.
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yeah, I can't really make that last line ("The shallop flitteth silken-sail'd") fit into trochaic tetrameter, stressing "The" just feels wrong. And it doesn't feel like the meter should change in the middle of a sentence!
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I'm not 100% convinced I'm right, because he's changing up the meter right after those lines, and maybe those lines are ending on dactyls?
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is trochaic tetrameter, right? It feels like the apostrophe is forcing the reader to say the verb in two syllables – "veil ED" rather than "veiled" which I would say as one syllable.
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
You might be interested in this, which I typeset for a friend – original version might be floating around the internet somewhere: www.amazon.com/Cosmic-Fishi...
Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics with Buckminster Fuller
Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics with Buckminster Fuller - Kindle edition by Applewhite, E.J., Fuller, Buckminster. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Cosmic Fishing: An Account of Writing Synergetics with Buckminster Fuller.
www.amazon.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Weird that he claims that word is untranslatable – isn't what he's describing what the Japanese called "benshi"? Pretty sure there have been a fair number of recreations of this recently: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benshi
Benshi - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
There was a Harper's article by Hugh Kenner way back when about the construction of the Gabler edition of Ulysses which talks admiringly about the computer system Gabler was using to reconstruct the text. It did not have lower case.
September 18, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The guy who killed Shinzo Abe?
September 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Gutenberg version is print, yes: exactchange.com/books/p/imme...

Second one is from 2008 – I remember having it running back then, but no idea what it would do now! ISOs for both of them are at the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/Chri... and archive.org/details/Chri...
Chris Marker Immemory — Exact Change
Immemory: Gutenberg Version by Chris Marker Edited & with an Introduction by Isabel Ochoa Gold 480 pages, paperback ISBN 978-1878972446
exactchange.com
August 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Might be worth noting the Internet Archive's got a bunch of scans of rave zines: archive.org/details/rave... – they're not sorted very well, and there are probably many on there that aren't under that rubric. No Trip as far as I can tell!
August 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Is that the one that also includes the routine making fun of Russians? I remember thinking that a good commentary track with a historian contextualizing all of the strange stereotypes in that movie would be really helpful, though maybe not likely to happen.
August 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
His travel guides to Florence and Venice (the former of which is being read in A ROOM WITH A VIEW) are wildly catty about basically everyone, living or dead.
August 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM