I haven’t been blogging, because I haven’t been writing posts, partly because I’ve been feeling low, and strung out. That shouldn’t keep up for too long.
By weight, blogs are 75% and upwards apology, like zines and communications with thesis advisors and editors.
Here’s something I wrote six months ago, and I wonder at myself:
Avoidance of responsibility can also be a sign of confidence. Either in yourself: you are sure that the responsibility is not onerous, you will get to it at some later date, or that this failure will not affect you (your essential you); or in events, that they will smile on you, and your debts will be erased.
I think I had told myself I had to write one of those a day. So there are a lot of iffy ones. I’m not sure the thought on that one was all bad, but it’s poorly expressed. More exactly: I’m not sure what I’m saying or whether I mean it. And I’m pretty sure I’ve got the intellect to power it through regardless. So it’s strutting; checking its fly with one hand and combing its hair with the other. This one has more zip:
The foundation is measured quickly, but what if you become old, waiting for the concrete to set, before you can begin building.
Hi, nice to see that you are back doing this. I just started reading Vonnegut’s “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” and was wondering whether you know it. That might well be the funniest first sentence I ever remember reading in a book. Also, do you know Haruki Murakami’s “The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland?”
Hmm, I am a bit off-topic, I suppose. Apologies, I really only wanted to say hello.
I don’t know that book yet; I had successfully avoided Vonnegut for years until last fall? last spring? when the server at a place I go to for breakfast talked me into reading The Sirens of Titan, which is fantastic, so I have no reason to avoid him any longer. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is now on my reading list.
Spring 2005 I ran around reading whatever Murakami I could get my hands on – you might also like Dance, Dance, Dance and A Wild Sheep Chase.