Everything You Ever... what a cliché
So there's been another small break in posting, yes?
Well, the reason, besides time and motivation related problems, is mostly this:
The ideas in my head worth writing about usually are either about science/the humanities, ecological/social issues or "philosophy". The first two or four are something other people are more qualified to write about and all you people out there deserve to read about them from knowledgeable sources, which I mostly am not, not even about linguistics beyond the basics, and most people don't (and shouldn't?) care about linguistics too much. Oh, and the basics of linguistics can be quite boring, even for fans.
Ecological/social issues are so politically "loaded" that I wouldn't be going there without good reason anyway, beside which anything I might have got to say is often quite hard (for me) to put into words, at least in such a way that it would be understood well enough (and on these issues I really don't want to be misunderstood).
The part about difficulty of putting to words is true about philosophy too, just more so, besides which my thoughts about existence etc. might be too easily confused with some kind of nihilism, and it would be really embarrasing if people believed me to be some angsty self-pitying wretch with no life, craving attention, would it not?
(hmm, I do blog, albeit occasionally... oops...)
Well, anyway...
I usually don't even consider writing about art (=music, it being the only kind of (non-literature) art I know anything about, which still is not much), although it is often on my mind, because I feel there is not much to say, except "Go and listen/see/touch/etc. (to)(it) by yourself!".
Literature (here considered separate from other forms of art for various reasons), of course, is somewhat of a different matter, as words are somewhat better suited as a subject of discussion (by words) than, for example, music, but I seem to be one of those jerks who feel that dissecting a text too far makes it loose some of it's magic. So I wont be analyzing poetry on this page too soon (I heard that relieved sigh, sir.), although I might put out some general ideas about writing/things written sometime. Or generally about processes of creation, we'll see.
Somebody might be asking, why I wrote this post (no, the intention was not flaunting with what a pretentious elitist loser I am, although I seem to have done a good job of that, too).
Well:
-I got bored of seeing the same post at the top of my blog all the time (yes, I do visit my own blog from time to time - how boring is that?)
-originally the point was to infrom you, that some real posts might be waiting to be written - with luck their wait should not be too long (it did take quite a lot of words for me to say this :o )
-didn't have anything better to do (still, I do have a life, you know... not listening... not listening)
Well, the reason, besides time and motivation related problems, is mostly this:
The ideas in my head worth writing about usually are either about science/the humanities, ecological/social issues or "philosophy". The first two or four are something other people are more qualified to write about and all you people out there deserve to read about them from knowledgeable sources, which I mostly am not, not even about linguistics beyond the basics, and most people don't (and shouldn't?) care about linguistics too much. Oh, and the basics of linguistics can be quite boring, even for fans.
Ecological/social issues are so politically "loaded" that I wouldn't be going there without good reason anyway, beside which anything I might have got to say is often quite hard (for me) to put into words, at least in such a way that it would be understood well enough (and on these issues I really don't want to be misunderstood).
The part about difficulty of putting to words is true about philosophy too, just more so, besides which my thoughts about existence etc. might be too easily confused with some kind of nihilism, and it would be really embarrasing if people believed me to be some angsty self-pitying wretch with no life, craving attention, would it not?
(hmm, I do blog, albeit occasionally... oops...)
Well, anyway...
I usually don't even consider writing about art (=music, it being the only kind of (non-literature) art I know anything about, which still is not much), although it is often on my mind, because I feel there is not much to say, except "Go and listen/see/touch/etc. (to)(it) by yourself!".
Literature (here considered separate from other forms of art for various reasons), of course, is somewhat of a different matter, as words are somewhat better suited as a subject of discussion (by words) than, for example, music, but I seem to be one of those jerks who feel that dissecting a text too far makes it loose some of it's magic. So I wont be analyzing poetry on this page too soon (I heard that relieved sigh, sir.), although I might put out some general ideas about writing/things written sometime. Or generally about processes of creation, we'll see.
Somebody might be asking, why I wrote this post (no, the intention was not flaunting with what a pretentious elitist loser I am, although I seem to have done a good job of that, too).
Well:
-I got bored of seeing the same post at the top of my blog all the time (yes, I do visit my own blog from time to time - how boring is that?)
-originally the point was to infrom you, that some real posts might be waiting to be written - with luck their wait should not be too long (it did take quite a lot of words for me to say this :o )
-didn't have anything better to do (still, I do have a life, you know... not listening... not listening)
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