tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post3904885090041041719..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Blog ThoughtsNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-44565660098017950292011-08-19T18:33:10.183+01:002011-08-19T18:33:10.183+01:00By gosh, I think you're right, Jonathan! Food ...By gosh, I think you're right, Jonathan! Food for thought there all right....Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-70359267846653113872011-08-19T17:02:58.421+01:002011-08-19T17:02:58.421+01:00Lamb and Hazlitt certainly, but also De Quincey an...Lamb and Hazlitt certainly, but also De Quincey and indisputably Coleridge. Indeed, STC’s voluminous and labyrinthine prose works are more blog-like than most blogs: you can almost feel the hyperlinks kicking in as he goes off in pursuit of an arcane point from Schelling, a detail from Hakluyt’s voyages, an etymological quibble and its theological/ philosophical/psychological ramifications, or some minute observation of clouds building over Derwent Water or the exquisite effect of candlelight reflected in his own chamberpot.<br /><br />So it’s the Romantics, innit? You could perhaps make a case for the blog as the late Romantic prose form par excellence: the emphasis on personal experience, however apparently mundane or trivial, the promiscuous mingling of genres and styles, the penchant for the miscellaneous and discursive and corresponding distaste for most kinds of schematic thought? I haven’t got the time or mental energy to think it through right now, but it seems think-throughable.jonathan lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986943428040953041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-68849042728531197382011-08-19T13:06:02.700+01:002011-08-19T13:06:02.700+01:00looks like I must do a 1p book review for the Dabb...looks like I must do a 1p book review for the Dabbler!wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-72694262425600477642011-08-19T10:15:05.114+01:002011-08-19T10:15:05.114+01:00Hoho - thanks for that glimpse of the future, Anon...Hoho - thanks for that glimpse of the future, Anonymous!<br />And yes Worm - Collis wld have been a brilliant blogger. Like Recusant, I must read him again...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-32453442143021375332011-08-19T09:37:20.381+01:002011-08-19T09:37:20.381+01:00Oh yes, Worm, a great book, which you have just re...Oh yes, Worm, a great book, which you have just reminded me I have not read for almost thirty years.............time to nip over to Amazon and buy it for a 1p.Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-36412638662296675692011-08-19T09:00:14.168+01:002011-08-19T09:00:14.168+01:00good post nige - and its something I've though...good post nige - and its something I've thought about before too, with regards to one of my favourite books - The Worm Forgives The Plough by John Stewart Collis, which is essentially short philosophical nature rambles, with each page able to stand alonewormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02802335627720182532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-33314403036590640502011-08-18T21:09:22.783+01:002011-08-18T21:09:22.783+01:00Nige,
Your thoughts about blogging reminded me of ...Nige,<br />Your thoughts about blogging reminded me of this XKCD comic:<br /><br />http://xkcd.com/239/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com