Comments on: backspace

By: Fiona Hamer

Fiona Hamer — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:43:59 +0000

This is the place where we go backwards before going forwards because what went forwards before was wrong. When we find ourselves in need of a backspace, we can rethink where we were and find a new of becoming what we want to be.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:10:25 +0000

I can’t touch the backspace. I’m unable because I don’t have time and my tutor is breathing down my neck. I can feel her break along my neck and it smells of burned synthetic tobacco and overly sweet perfume. I have to type faster. I have to hack faster, correct, or I don’t get dinner tonight, she’ll make sure of that.

By: Mi Chiamano Alex

Mi Chiamano Alex — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:54:46 +0000

One button-that undo’s all mistakes. i wish it were more than just an inanimate object, though. maybe if it were real, like for human’s as opposed for just computer’s mistakes. instead of mankind wasting their youth via interweb-sharing all feelings through technology instead of face to face- and undoing all of what they really feel because one isn’t sure how the other will take it…backspace. instead of saying how they feel, they just…backspace-and reply with a simple “I don’t know.” human interaction has no backspace-one cannot start a sentence verbally then in the middle of it just…backspace. nope. All this is blabber-word vomit. mmmmmm. backspace.

By: olive

olive — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:45:26 +0000

it can be a sentence wrongly typed, fingers hovering over the enter button, or that day you tripped in front of the whole school that day in assembly. you’d do anything to go back, to exactly how things were the second before they laughed at you. you’d do anything to try again… to backspace.

By: rhyme79

rhyme79 — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:25:02 +0000

Writing on paper with an inky implement is unlike any other creative experience a person can have. The choosing of words, knowing there is no backspace, only the option of a careful strike-through, creates a sometimes tentative grip of what would be an otherwise confident placing of meaning with no fear of mishap.

By: laurapacker

laurapacker — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:21:51 +0000

I wish I had a backspace bar for my life. Just a moment or two, I could take back when I say something stupid or do something mindless. It would be so nice, wouldn’t it, if I could just tap a key and there! I’d get a do over.

I might abuse it thought, and backspace myself back to childhood. Then I would never know you.

By: Sister Ginger

Sister Ginger — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:46:18 +0000

A backspace? Really? That’s the word of the day? How completely worthless.

If only a backspace could work in real life…I’d backspace all the way to before I was as I am now. Or maybe an alternate universe button would be better. Jesus.

By: Holden

Holden — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:37:14 +0000

Jeremy couldn’t think of anything to write on oneword, he started with a random name, “Sam,” and then didn’t like it so pressed the backspace button. But his computer interpreted it as going back to the previous page. So he found himself looking at the front page, again, with the “go” button. Well, that didn’t count towards the one minute, did it? Now he could start again, better prepared.

By: Jacklin

Jacklin — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:24:10 +0000

It’s plain to see, printed in black and white
Watermarks, and Harvard referencing, and footnotes bursting with a statisticians haven
I’ll use prestigious paper, because that makes it fact.
Right?
My finger hovers musingly over the oblong backspace key
Threatening to erase even the graphemes of solipsism
Because perhaps even the most reductionist fact can be made redundant.
Wrong?

By: Semolina

Semolina — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:22:02 +0000

The backspace key is a wonderful thing it allows me to wipe out mistakes in an instant.. If only there was such a thing in real life, I would use it constantly, there would be no regrets, no bad decisions my life would be perfect.