Whitman! Wow, yes, I remember being moved by him in school. Also
   ee cummings; his visual poetry fed perfectly into late 80s
   Kenneth's new discovery of Online, monospaced font and an
   already existing fetish for typewriters and combining words and
   the visual appearance of them. In rows and columns though (hence
   my ease at mastering Excel from 0 15 years later (and making
   darn good money at the time))

   Not much for spiral poetry. It's cute though.

   Might also explain my penchant for Michel Foucault's overlapping
   grids/ truth filtering through and being obscured thing he did
   with his hands.

   Poor Chomsky just didn't 'get' him, although I think Foucault
   was also a bit cocky... but then again.. so is Chomsky (as much
   as I adore him)

   Chomsky takes a single line and plays connect-the-dots. Pretty
   pictures... builds nice little machines out of them - but I
   prefer layers upon layers with lights and shadows passing
   through.