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desperanceIf I deleted five words of this novel, I would have 44044 words remaining, which would be a nice symmetrical place to stop.
If I wrote another four paragraphs, I would have 999 of those.
These two ambitions? Are incompatible, without a great deal of foolish juggling in which I will not indulge.
Four paragraphs of a hundred words each would also cover the matter, more or less - but I'm hungry now, and I still need to get home. Forget symmetry, think about food.
(But these are the kinds of tricks we use, now that we have metrics. Life used to be much simpler, when I only counted pages. Top copies and carbons, mounting up beside the typewriter. The kids today, they probably don't even know what carbons were...)
[I did once invent a gadget, a primitive counter that attached to the space-bar of a typewriter and clicked over one digit every time you hit it. Not exact, but close enough for Chaz. Only then computers came along before I could actually, y'know, build one. Like my art installations, my inventions are only ever in my head.]
If I wrote another four paragraphs, I would have 999 of those.
These two ambitions? Are incompatible, without a great deal of foolish juggling in which I will not indulge.
Four paragraphs of a hundred words each would also cover the matter, more or less - but I'm hungry now, and I still need to get home. Forget symmetry, think about food.
(But these are the kinds of tricks we use, now that we have metrics. Life used to be much simpler, when I only counted pages. Top copies and carbons, mounting up beside the typewriter. The kids today, they probably don't even know what carbons were...)
[I did once invent a gadget, a primitive counter that attached to the space-bar of a typewriter and clicked over one digit every time you hit it. Not exact, but close enough for Chaz. Only then computers came along before I could actually, y'know, build one. Like my art installations, my inventions are only ever in my head.]
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:57 pm (UTC)