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Tuesday, February 19. 2013

An ancestor of blogs

From Happy Birthday, United Amateur Press Association, here's HP Lovecraft:



The desire to write for publication is one which inheres strongly in every human breast. From the proficient college graduate, storming the gates of the high-grade literary magazines, to the raw schoolboy, vainly endeavoring to place his first crude compositions in the local newspapers, the whole intelligent public are today seeking expression through the printed page, and yearning to behold their thoughts and ideals permanently crystallized in the magic medium of type...



Vanity of vanities...


Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:49 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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My youthful "yearning" was to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, which I achieved more than once by my mid-twenties. Then, realizing how boring science was, I chucked it overboard and became a professional pilot, which was a lot more challenging and fun to boot. My fondest memories are of my flying days, not of having been published.
#1 BillH on 2013-02-19 13:10 (Reply)
Coleridge was the first blogger.

He wrote op-eds for a decade around 1800 (Essays on His Times, Princeton U Press, 3 volumes).

My favorite line was to the effect that conflict of interest is the pulley on which good character is hoist into public view, something memorable enough to rate an index entry under "pulley."
#2 rhhardin (Link) on 2013-02-19 14:18 (Reply)

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