"...the problem about writing, is about re-writing. Especially re-writing.... if you are doing a novel, a book of history, an encyclopedia, the issue is not the fiddly little stuff you can do on a small window on the screen. The issue is how to massively rearrange, and keep track of large pieces of content. Anybody who has done this, knows it has nothing to do with word processing, as presently constituted. It has to do with being able to find all of the pieces. Being able to keep track of where they were in previous documents and rearrange them. I have an extreme grudge against both the parties and the Macintosh Team. When they came out with the Macintosh, they also ruined two holy words. My first job was as a copy boy for the New York Times. Between my first and second years of college. The very first thing I would do every morning would be to fill the paste pots. What did you do with the paste pots? You cut and you pasted. What did that mean? It meant taking a draft, and cutting it, and taking all of the pieces in front of you on the table. Then saying this should go here, that is probably the best lead.....getting the sequence of materials as a parallel consideration of all of the parts. Looking at them simultaneously. Then using physical paste to put them in order. This process was used by everybody. According to one source, Tolstoy would cut up his manuscripts and he would leave them along. He would make two copies. His two daughters would take his dictation, then he’d save one for the file. Then cut up the other and leave all of the pieces of it all over the floor of his dacha, as he walked into the woods he’d call back. Don’t touch my noodles. This was cut and paste as it has been carried on by time by serious writers. So what did they do when they devised an abdominal mechanism for transporting stuff between one application to another. A place where you would put things of which you couldn’t see the contents, and which would destroy what ever was previously there if you had forgot that there was something there. Why did they call it a clipboard? Except for it resembled a clipboard in every respect except you could couldn’t see it and it would destroy it, the things that were there before. Unfortunately now, there are no other respects."
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