User talk:Jeffrey Scott Bernstein

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Stanley Kubrick

I see from the history here that you made many edits in a short period of time. Please use the "preview" button a tad more if possible, since it makes the page history and recentchanges a easier to read and is a tad easier on the servers :) Aaron Schulz 20:07, 6 October 2007 (CDT)

Thank you very much, Aaron, for your assistance. You have every right to rap me on the knuckles! I do not wish to complicate matters! In future I will be sure to preview the page before saving it. Thanks again. (Haha! Oops! I forgot to add the tildes, so I have to save the page again! Haha, sorry, I promise to try harder!)Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 20:14, 6 October 2007 (CDT)

Waldo

Thanks for your kind words! I hope to have the article finished within a couple of days. The problem, which you as a writer I'm sure you know about, is that sometimes that there's *too* much material -- it's very difficult for me to winnow it down into a general article. If I could write about "art" meaningfully I'd do so, but I can't, so most of the article has to be narrative. I wasn't sure what to do with the Joyce material -- since you like it, I'll be sure to work it in. That's a nice picture by the artist you directed me. Reminds me more, perhaps of the American painter Thomas Hart Benton who, of course, is far better known than Waldo. All the best, and keep up your own contributions: I've glanced at them previously but was waiting to see a more final version. Hayford Peirce 16:41, 8 October 2007 (CDT)

"The problem . . . is that sometimes there's *too* much material." Indeed. Isn't it somewhat ironic that so much of writing is deciding what NOT to say? Best wishes for your continuing cerebral adventures! Jeffrey Scott Bernstein 16:47, 8 October 2007 (CDT)

As Anatol France, or Oscar, or *someone* supposedly wrote, "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one." Hayford Peirce 17:01, 8 October 2007 (CDT)