1. Why do you blog?
For me, blogging is democratic journalism. You get your own little corner of the cyber universe, which is the equivalent of the comment pieces in the Sunday supplements. Okay, you’ll never reach the educated masses like Julie Birchill or Jon Ronson, but if you are erudite, eloquent or witty [...]



Modernism X

If he were a musician, Herman Hesse said, he could write a two-part melody in which the two lines of notes and sounds would complement, combat, determine and correspond with each other, which would be mutually and reciprocally related in the most vital and intimate way; and yet anyone able to read music would be [...]






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No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it. Ring Lardner

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