*strangle*

If there is in fact, as one of the Mercury columnists pet-peeved about this morning, a special circle of Hell reserved for those whose cell phones ring in movie theaters, there is also one reserved for those whose phones ring in libraries. Especially loud/tinny-piercing enough to go through the wall of the North Reading Room (and through the significant separating airspace as well) into the Technical Services area where I am. How I wish that devices which block cell-phone signals were not illegal, or that we could search everyone as they entered and confiscate their phones to be held in a "coat check" area until they left. Feh.

*strangle*

If there is in fact, as one of the Mercury columnists pet-peeved about this morning, a special circle of Hell reserved for those whose cell phones ring in movie theaters, there is also one reserved for those whose phones ring in libraries. Especially loud/tinny-piercing enough to go through the wall of the North Reading Room (and through the significant separating airspace as well) into the Technical Services area where I am. How I wish that devices which block cell-phone signals were not illegal, or that we could search everyone as they entered and confiscate their phones to be held in a "coat check" area until they left. Feh.

patterning

Someone posted on a mailing list that they had done a kind of "magnetic poetry" thing by cutting "words that spoke to them" out of printed material and then assembling them into phrases, and that this is what he had "happened to come up with":

welcome lightgiver,
holy instrument,
divine teacher,
through unique gifts,
prayers
humility
mercy


my thought on reading this was it's emerging...

(I'm also curious in what newspaper or magazine "lightgiver" appeared, and in what context.)

patterning

Someone posted on a mailing list that they had done a kind of "magnetic poetry" thing by cutting "words that spoke to them" out of printed material and then assembling them into phrases, and that this is what he had "happened to come up with":

welcome lightgiver,
holy instrument,
divine teacher,
through unique gifts,
prayers
humility
mercy


my thought on reading this was it's emerging...

(I'm also curious in what newspaper or magazine "lightgiver" appeared, and in what context.)