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September 22nd, 2005

THE FT TOP 23 UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA: 21: Automatic Writing

In our say and age its called dyslexia, or piss-poor typing. In the Victorian age it was known as automatic writing. Perhaps the two things are not exactly the same, but consider the idea behind automatic writing and then consider the way I wrtie a Freakytrigge rpiece.

The spiritualist version of automatic writing involves the medium going into a trance and then chanelling some spirit, via the medium of the the wrist and pen/ Said medium has no idea what they are writing until revivied and - shock - there is a form of communictaion, often incomprehensible there on teh page.

Now consider a standerd FT piece from me. I have an idea, I quickly go straight to blogger and write it up AS IF IN A TRANCE. All the more, I may well be on a brief break at work which can aslo induce a TRANCELIKESTAte in me. Therefore what comes out is often gibberish, poorly spellchecked and punctuated. Actually i am usually correcting as I go, but the magnitude of the errors is such that they rearly all get sifted out. Tehre are meny readers who find this intencsely annoying, to whom I am aopologetic: but hold. Perhaps these are not slips of clumsiness, poor typing and a slipshod attitude.

PERHAPS MY TYPOS ARE THE SPITIR WORLD RTRYING TO BREAK THROUGH. Think upon that…

(This post has not been editied in any way to show exactly how much the spirit world is trying to break free: Paul is ded.)

Written by Pete Baran on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 | 262 views |

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