that post thats like this is the reading order for discworld is WRONG first you read the first one you find in a second-hand shop or local library. then you read going postal. after that youre on your own
A story of amazing poetic pettiness recounted by Peter Shillingsburg in his book Resisting Texts:
"Take the case of two poems by the Tasmanian poet Gwen Harwood, 'Eloisa to Abelard' and 'Abelard to Eloisa,' published under the pseudonym Walter Lehmann in the Bulletin (a Sydney literary magazine) on 5 August 1961. Several years ago an Australian friend gave me a copy of these poems and told the following story: the author had already published under the same pseudonym in the Bulletin and had written a bitter complaint to the editor that her poem was distorted in publication by having all lines pushed over flush left, destroying, thereby, significant levels of indentation. The editor replied that the column format influenced the policy, which was applied indiscriminately to all Bulletin poetry. According to my informant, Harwood then wrote and submitted the two poems reproduced here. She submitted them, it was said, with varying degrees of indentation, and the editors predictably and indiscriminately 'suppressed' the author's intentions by printing all lines flush left--creating, thereby, the 'inadvertent' acrostic message, readable vertically down the left column: 'So long Bulletin. Fuck all editors.' From that story I concluded that texts are not agentless."