If you follow this blog regularly, you'll notice that the last few posts appeared as one long paragraph -- no indenting, no spacing. Lest you think I've lost my formatting mind or my grasp of English grammar, let me explain.
While I am an avid fan of white space and short paragraphs, unfortunately the blogspot techies are not.
When I reviewed the original text, all my paragraphs were right where I left them. But press the "publish post" icon and all semblance of paragraphing vanishes into some e.e. cummings hole in cyberspace. Can you say "glitch"? Can you also say "helpless"? Can you also say --- well, perhaps I should keep that one to myself.
These are the times I think the Luddites are onto something. But before letting a computer claim victory, I went -- where else? -- to the "help" page. Apparently there is a virtual cadre of other victims trapped in formatting hell. I found solace in knowing that others cherish the paragraph as I do. I found annoyance in knowing that the solutions offered were useless.
I feel the urge to go back to those one-Dickensian-length-paragraph posts and enter the word "paragraph" where one should be. Since I can't have actual white space, I'll just make my own.
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