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Freelancing has never been the gentlest of callings. Samuel Johnson in his 1755 Dictionary immortalized the ink-stained wretches who lived on London's Grub Street turning out literary piecework. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," said Dr. Johnson, who nonetheless spent most of his life in poverty. In the platinum age of periodicals, roughly from the 1920s to the 1950s, it was possible for man to live by word alone, provided he sold it to a magazine. The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Collier's, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion and Coronet routinely...
...appeared--in Playboy, in lots of places--and to Dylan-watchers it indicated panic in Malibu. It did not bode well for Renaldo and Clara. For the first time, Dylan was downright solicitous of interviewers, especially the simpering Jonathan Cott of Rolling Stone. It seemed Dylan only wanted free ink; the rebellious posture that had led him to attack a Time Magazine reporter in Don't Look Backwas revealed as only a posture...
...concerned letters. Hemingway's correspondence has-yet to be fully published, though most of it was read by Carlos Baker for his fine biography Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. Portions of those letters quoted by Bruccoli indicate that though Hemingway could be sympathetic, he used a lot of ink telling Fitzgerald to shape up or ship out. That Scott's drinking habits made him a difficult friend is a fact well documented. There was, of course. Fitzgerald's wife Zelda, who hated Hemingway. He. in return, contended that she had ruined her husband's talent with...
...every case, the object is the same: to translate information -letters, numbers, images, sounds, marks or simply magnetized ink on a check-into patterns of electrical pulses that are comprehensible to the computer...
Bernard Shaw put on a one-man show from the moment he cut his teeth on words. His bloodstream was ink, but, body and soul, he was mind...