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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Time: 9:27:00 AM EDT
Author:  bbartle3


 
"Dammit.  Don't you hate when people read
the earnest words you've written and then use
the comments to talk about themselves?!  
Sorry.  I'm conscious of it now."
 
[Comment from a "sorry" blogger directed elsewhere]
 
I do that all the time and will not apologize.
Helping to increase the volume of self-centered
self pity is not among my ambitions.
 
What staggers me is how many responses such
witless journal entries inspire. Only this minute, puzzling
over this Comment, have I come across a possible
explanation. Most people must shudder at the very
thought of talking about themselves let alone
having to actually do that. They oughtta get over it.
 
Actually, thinking further, how on earth can actual
conversation ever take place if each person does
only a soliloquy!? If Hamlet were to go on much
longer telling us his troubles he'd become a first class
boor. (In any case he needed to see a psychiatrist.
That scene in the closet with his Mother!???)
 
Barry
http://journals.aol.com/bbartle3/Vengeance/

 



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  • #2 Comment from bgilmore725 
    10/25/07 10:23 PM | Permalink
    Well, everyone knows I do it too... what is the point of a public journal if one doesn't want or expect a connection made by the reader, and how can one make a genuine connection without relating a thought, event, or idea that the reader has? It is a conversation. Private journals, with no invitations, is where one would expect not to find comments from the reader talking about themselves. I've been conscious of it ever since I started blogging... on the net, there are writers, and there are readers. The readers read what the writers wrote, and then many will respond. With a personal connection. That's the way of it. bea

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  • #1 Comment from aimer 
    10/25/07 11:22 AM | Permalink
    Barry, I ha never quite conceptualized it in this way, but I do think that you may have hit the nail on the head with your observations, especially, "Actually, thinking further, how on earth can actual
    conversation ever take place if each person does
    only a soliloquy!?" Love your assessment of Hamlet, a keen observation and quite humorous as well.--Sheria