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 How
many of you noticed that as from the last issue Bikwil has been
sporting a new subtitle?
So why
the change after five years from The Newsletter of Quiet Enthusiasms?
Well,
when I began, I fully expected that Bikwil would remain a small
undertaking. And that’s why I chose the word newsletter. But
really it’s never been a newsletter. News, in fact, has been
conspicuously absent.
When I
put it on the Internet, I soon realised what a misnomer that
newsletter business was.
But how
to subtitle Bikwil?
Certainly
not as a journal — if I called it that, I’d be derided for high-falutination
quick smart.
Not as
a periodical, surely — a lifeless term, I reckon. A word that in
all my years of working in a major library I hardly ever saw used in
subtitles.
The
Bimonthly of . . . ? Somehow I don’t think so.
Roget
remaining serenely uncooperative on the matter, for better or worse,
then, Bikwil is now The Magazine of . . .
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