“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, September 9, 2011

Hyperobjects Liveblog 3

I've made a decision to write the book as one huge word file. I've never done this before. But I reckon the only reason why is habit.

It suddenly seems much better to do it this way. The book will be a whole from the start. No cobbling.

I think the only reason I didn't do it this way before was anxiety about memory, left over from the days of Quadras and so on. There is no good reason why my machine can't handle a single file about 1mb large, which is roughly how big a book is, I find.

This one will probably be about 70 000 words or so, so I can visualize it as somewhere between a DVD and a VHS video in width...

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