Correspondence?

But what about the 'burning desire' to contact the author? The author: pseudonym? anonymous? amorphous? intangible? You would only be contacting yourself.

Wilson Duff to Lilo Berliner
20 August 1973
(Quoted by Phyllis Webb in "Nothing But Brush Strokes", 1995)

I meant to write a letter to cyber space today - really to the other & again the other on the other side of cyber space. I got caught up in all sorts of deliciously dilletante activities of small consequence, large indulgence - walking the streets around here with their brickbox houses & snowy porches, then descending to the river's edge, changing directions out of an exhilarating & kindly warmish wind - flipping through poems (by Susan Musgrave) & straining through a charmingly angry article about psychobiologic critisism by the quaintly brilliant Phyllis Webb - discussing which song & why now & Hey!!! Teacher!!! Leave those kids alone - appraising the contents of the vegetable drawer & adding what was missing to a list for Yves to go foraging after - taking in a reading by some Jamaican author on the Sunday CBC radio that was (I had to admit it) admirably funny, alive...So the letter turned into a note which turned into a quote which pushed for a note...