tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post1359770103590418072..comments2024-03-29T10:02:55.374+00:00Comments on Nigeness: CommonplaceryNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-78539477668993262292018-11-28T19:38:01.594+00:002018-11-28T19:38:01.594+00:00Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. I will endeavor t...Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. I will endeavor to be entertaining with my limited resources.<br /><br />I spent many years scribbling in cultivated obscurity on Blogspot; I only got my own domain this past summer, when I also decided to be a bit more sociable and contribute some chatter to the blog economy. But yes, it did seem that Blogspot made it difficult to notice links, both incoming and outgoing.Damianhttp://asundayofliberty.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-32167881013565873332018-11-28T10:53:34.285+00:002018-11-28T10:53:34.285+00:00Yes indeed, he's a bit of a magician, I think ...Yes indeed, he's a bit of a magician, I think – and, like many magicians, a bit of a patter artist, a showman. Great reading though.<br />Thanks for commenting, Damian – I've bookmarked yr blog, which had somehow escaped me (for some reason, links to Nigeness don't show up). Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-90788419444683442652018-11-27T16:04:05.442+00:002018-11-27T16:04:05.442+00:00I've spent the latter half of this year acquir...I've spent the latter half of this year acquiring Epstein's books of essays, and they do indeed furnish a lot of material for brief blog-ponderings. Some things stand out immediately, and I make a little notation in the text, or copy the passage down. But I find there's another category of his notable quotables, shall we say — subtler lines that don't necessarily strike me as worth highlighting, but which, apropos of nothing, come back to me weeks later. I'll have a phrase or an image in my head, wonder where it came from, and then finally conclude it must have been in one of his essays. Of course, at that point, I have no idea of the original context, let alone where to find it again.<br /><br />Reading the books one after another, I also notice he tends to reheat a lot of his old jokes and anecdotes, which makes me feel better about my own lack of originality.Damianhttp://asundayofliberty.comnoreply@blogger.com