unit-2-bards-of-the-internet-課文翻譯-展示頁
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【正文】 puServe, Prodigy, America Online or the Internet。 they’re to fire and forget.” Many online postings are posed “l(fā)ive” with the clock ticking, using rudimentary word processors on puter systems that charge by the minute and in some cases will shut down without warning when an hour runs out.6. That is not to say that with more time every writer on the Internet would produce a sparkling copy. Much of the fiction and poetry is secondrate or worse, which is not surprising, given that the barriers to entry are so low. “In the real world,” says Mary Anne Mohanraj, a Chicagobased poet, “it takes a hell of a lot of work to get published, which naturally weeds out a lot of the garbage. On the Net, just a few keystrokes sends your writing out to thousands of readers.”7. But even among the reams of bad poetry, gems are to be found. Mike Godwin, a Washingtonbased lawyer who posts under the pen name “mnemonic,” tells the story of Joe Green, a technical writer at Cray Research who turned a moribund discussion group called into a real poetry workshop by mercilessly critiquing the pieces he found there. “Some people got angry and said if he was such a god of poetry, why didn’t he publish his poems to the group?” recalls Godwin. “He did, and blew them all away.” Green’s Well Met in Minnesota, a mockepic account of a facetoface meeting with a fellow network scribbler, is now revered on the Internet as a classic. It begins, “The truth is that when I met Mark I was dressed as the Canterbury Tales. Rather difficult to do as you might suspect, but I wanted to make a certain impression.”8. The more prosaic technical and political discussion groups, meanwhile, have bee so crowded with writers crying for attention that a Darwinian survival principle has started to prevail. “It’s so petitive that you have to work on your style if you want to make any impact,” says Jorn Barger, a software designer in Chicago. Good writing on the Net tends to be clear, vigorous,
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