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No real advantage
Scott McLemee’s first post on his blog has isolated some points of interest about the use of the Internet as a public scratch sheet.
What interests me at least as much as the well-worn lines on the displacement and replacement of print media is the tossed-off thought (also well-worn, but elsewhere) on the obligation to currency.
As a writer (hell, as somebody trying to live from day to day) I have for a long time been guided by various models from the past, even the somewhat distant past. That probably explains this recurrent experience of feeling totally out of touch with the contemporary world in general and my colleagues in particular. (To have a much greater interest in the past than in the present is no real advantage to someone writing for magazines and newspapers.)
Link: Inaugural Noises
Remarks: 1 of 1
Remark · Zbs · 28 February 2007
Actually something of Blackmur here, but I can’t seem to find the passage.