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something about reading a poem online & then searching again a d seeing a different version, these lines different, punctuation, capitalization, line breaks differentPermalink Look on archive.org
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this version in a scanned PDF, the other version a photograph of an old edition, one someone thoughtfully typed up for a blog post in 2008 (, one only available as a soundcloud reading)Look on archive.org
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obviously text has varied between editions before (and this is often the source of the changes). and people have always copied by hand, photocopied etc. but now all of these versions are so much more immediately to hand, the handwriting as elevated as the hot leadPermalink Look on archive.org
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and see text start to return to being a thing modified in reproduction, a common heritage of leaky archives, a vernacular transmission where for a while we had definitive editionsPermalink Look on archive.org