In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > I think our favorite writer should get a new pentium computer with > quad-speed cd-rom drive and 16k of RAM. He was always the first one Boy! I'm sure he would have loved that, but would the quality of writing have been the same? I _know_ that my style is changed immeasurably by spell-checkers, grammar checkers, style-checkers, thesauruses and the ability to change great chunks of text at the sweep of a mouse, but in my case it's an improvement -- I think that for someone with flair and talent the opposite might apply. Graham