Dare To Inquire: Emerson On Blogging To Purpose    
 Emerson On Blogging To Purpose4 comments
1 Aug 2003 @ 10:33, by Bruce Kodish

"All writing should be selection in order to drop every dead word. Why do you not save out of your speech or thinking only the vital things—the spirited mot which amused or warmed you when you spoke it—because of its luck & newness........"

" I have just been reading, in this careful book of a most intelligent & learned man, a number of flat conventional words & sentences. If a man would learn to read his own manuscript severely—becoming really a third person, & search only for what interested him, he would blot to purpose—& how every page would gain! Then all the words will be sprightly, & every sentence a surprise."

I wish to blog to purpose so I'll do my best to follow Emerson's advice here.

See [link]
for the article/review
BIG DEAD WHITE MALE: Ralph Waldo Emerson turns two hundred.
by JOHN UPDIKE


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1 Aug 2003 @ 11:51 by waalstraat : I can understand
how you could be no pain in my back, but you hit a double Bruce, you have also prescribed how to be no pain to my head. Following your advice or was it RWE's
advice this comment has taken me 2 hours to write, but I must admit; I feel pure!  

1 Aug 2003 @ 11:57 by mx @149.142.240.188 : Emerson's advice
if everybody followed Emerson's advice, that would reduce the traffic on the Internet by 99+ percent, I'm afraid ;-)

good advice, though, I try to follow it myself..

'nuf zed!
;-)
mx  

1 Aug 2003 @ 12:00 by mx @149.142.240.188 : Waalstraat!!!!
Salve Waalstraat!
How come you're posting on this page before me???
How do you do this (being so fast to find a top quality place)?
I only told Bruce about this Wednesday evening..
speechless mx  

1 Aug 2003 @ 14:06 by waalstraat : What can I tell you
The Buddish Shadow knows what empytness lurks in the minds of men--Aum-PA  

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