‘Your voice is your own, if you take responsibility for it. This unimpaired prospect of suiting myself holds back concerns that the sheer volume of blogstuff has gotten appetite suppressing… Then there is the worry that compulsively reading 30+ blogs a day has all the hallmarks of mild narcotic addition. And, yes, the fact that the blogosphere has been colonized by all literary and intellectual vices known to man, and a few invented specially for the occasion.’
From a lovely new offering, The Valve, Miriam Burstein of The Little Professor and Dan Green of The Reading Experience are part of this venture and the first substantial post on offer is written with Trilling’s essay, “The Function of the Little Magazine” very much in mind.
I couldn’t help chuckling the first time I read this – I really thought they meant invented voices here, not vices. And plead guilty on all counts. Even if I’m not being paid to speak or play up, Fran.
2 comments:
hmmm...reading 30+ blogs a day an addiction? sounds a little technophobic actually...back in the days when i used to spend 50 bucks a week on magazines books and newspapers i think everyone wanted a reader like me...now thats its free its an addiction:) yerright:) like your blog lots gen:)
Well put, well put. Free and for nothing as they say...
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