The wave of the future? a rising new form of communication? an exercise in practical narcissism?
(I owe my friend Mark for the last question.)
I hope I don't become obsessed. And if I do? it will die away and I will stumble upon some new obsession.
10.25.2005
Thoughts on blogging.
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more thoughts on blogging...
thomas said it the other day,
we all long to be in communion with one another, to be in community, and blogging allows us to contribute a little bit to each other's lives, if only in a small way.
it would be so wonderful if we could live within a stones throw of every person we held dear, but we must settle for blogging, it seems.
you might say it's just another form of letter writing, only more communal!
and I have seen so much beautiful honesty here, in a way that its sometimes difficult to convey about ourselves otherwise.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."
~oscar wilde
I've always thought blogging to be akin to the old family Christmas letters my parents used to send out (usually riddled with well-meaning factual errors about all us kids), except we don't have to wait until Christmas.
ahahahah. oh yep. many a factual error indeed. but usually fun ones.
"Tell the truth, but tell it slant..." says the immortal Dickinson.
Yet one thing I have learned from writers such as Hemingway and Frank McCourt: write plainly. And then there's Huck Finn who can tell such a bold-faced and clever lie that even he believes it to be true.
All these things must go into this online journaling business. I myself wish to be known by friends, but can I they know everything? Indeed, can I say everything?
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