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I can’t decide if Adam Kirsch really, really gets it or if he’s so wrong that he’s almost bent back around to righzt, wormhole fashion. The whole essay on writer’s aspiration, fame, and the age of blogs and the Internet is worth a read, but here’s a taste that made me think:
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And not just my skin, though we are down to just over 4 hours of daylight and not a lot of that is quality time with The Great God Sol. After a few weeks of rumination, scheduling and unscheduling, re-prioritizing, reading and sleeping, I am emerging from anti-social, introvert Cave 1.0 and re-joining the land [...]

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Says Sven:
“For as exciting as the blogosphere is as a supplement, as a place of provocation and response, it is too fluid in its nature ever to focus our widely diverging cultural energies. A hopscotch through the referential enormity of argument and opinion cannot settle the ground under our feet.”
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Man writes bland article about Paul McCartney for the New Yorker. Blogger comments on article’s blandness. Much unintended hilarity ensues. The funny lesson here is that the “writer” who is upset comes off looking so poorly prepared for his job, while the “blogger who is not a writer by virtue of being a blogger” is [...]

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If only a few more blog entries could approach Anscombe’s potent blend of incisiveness and brevity…

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