lawyerliz_IHB
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<p>I was an art major, and it's probably been said somewhere else already, but I think blogging is a new literary form. So this blog as a whole should be looked as, oh, say, analogous to a novel, or better yet, a textbook, written in real time, by a bunch of different people. Rather a pot luck dinner of a textbook.</p>
<p>Also, people generally don't willingly sit down and read a textbook, but apparently loads of people are willing to lurk and read the posts.</p>
<p>Remember Marshal McLuhan? The media is the message.</p>
<p>The type of writing is different; the style is different. The whole thing is rather stream of consciousness, and yet it all hangs together.</p>
<p>Jokes, put ons, off the cuff remarks alternate with and are part of real scholarship. Anybody truly stupid or obnoxious is rapidly put down. Anybody too pompous will be ignored.</p>
<p>You guys seem to like my posts, (or so I hope) but I've never even managed to get a letter to the editor published, because I tend to be all over the place in thought, and the editors want the equivalent of a sound-bite. And I don't have the discipline or the inclination to organize a novel, or even a long essay, but have always felt I had something to say.</p>
<p>A literary form satisfying the urges of people with a little bit of ADD.</p>
<p>Also, people generally don't willingly sit down and read a textbook, but apparently loads of people are willing to lurk and read the posts.</p>
<p>Remember Marshal McLuhan? The media is the message.</p>
<p>The type of writing is different; the style is different. The whole thing is rather stream of consciousness, and yet it all hangs together.</p>
<p>Jokes, put ons, off the cuff remarks alternate with and are part of real scholarship. Anybody truly stupid or obnoxious is rapidly put down. Anybody too pompous will be ignored.</p>
<p>You guys seem to like my posts, (or so I hope) but I've never even managed to get a letter to the editor published, because I tend to be all over the place in thought, and the editors want the equivalent of a sound-bite. And I don't have the discipline or the inclination to organize a novel, or even a long essay, but have always felt I had something to say.</p>
<p>A literary form satisfying the urges of people with a little bit of ADD.</p>