21 February 2004. I think I know just all the important ins and outs of Paint Shop, now--but will take a while to get all the operations straight in my mind. I made my revision of the collaboration I'm working with John on. I'm posting it here with John's starter and my first stab at it to indicate the evolution without requiring a reader to flip back and forth between this entry and my previous one.

Just a few comments. I removed everything I added yesterday to what John did except my long division example. His "sle p" needed to be prominent. I lazed in "mornings" and "unmooring" because I felt the interior of the poem would otherwise be too bare. I'm not sure I'm right about that. The piece seems finished to me, but John will be welcome to add to it (and I do see places it could still profitably go).

Although I doubt I'll add anything to the piece above, I may not be finished with John's frame, for I had several new ideas as to how to exploit it last night, while lying in bed. I may do a series with it.

(Note: additional comments on poetic effectiveness versus poetic importance, etc., are indefinitely postponed. I'm sure I'll get back to the topic, but seem to have temporarily lost interest in it.)