Posted by beardedlady on April 10, 2002, at 5:42:15
I didn't want to wreck Sar's memory thread, so I'm posting a little note here. I wrote with the small I for most of my life. In the circles I've travelled (poetry and art, mostly), that small i is not usually a flag but an affectation. I used it for about ten or fifteen years and only recently abandoned it in my poetry and my regular writing. I think it was about the time I started teaching and thought I should set an example.
Many of my friends (lots of teachers and poets) do their e-mails without the caps. I never really looked at it as is the person writing felt he or she were unimportant, since these are all folks whose egos are sometimes unable to fit in the room together!
Anyway, that's my take on the small I.
beardy : )>
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