tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post243967974839239998..comments2024-01-16T08:28:12.494-08:00Comments on I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE: Writing With Scissorsaimaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-54713023749443799932013-06-12T10:11:42.379-07:002013-06-12T10:11:42.379-07:00My apologies, Ellen! I'm delighted and surpris...My apologies, Ellen! I'm delighted and surprised you found your way here. As for recirculation I think your book has quite a bit on the dance of the new --the desire of people to find and fix something new to them--as it related to a kind of, I don't know the right words for this, maybe what I want to say is a specialist appreciation for the hackneyed and the well loved. What we find tedious, trite, and everywhere present they appreciated as, in some sense, authorized. My children learned the same little song poem that Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about in the little house books "Make new friends, but keep the old, for one is silver and the other is gold." There is about an old poem, song, or story something that our ancestors found marvellous, comforting, and valuable that we tend not to. (I think). <br /><br />But the internet does value or valorize stripping things of their original attribution and forwarding them on to others as anyone with an elderly relative on a right wing (or left wing) mass email list can attest. Political stories and legends live in the internet for years with their countries of origin, authors, and original meaning stripped and repurposed. Just look at the Obama is the antichrist set of accusations? Once these would have circulated primarily among the beleivers within a particular flock. They would have no need to compare their current belief about the antichrist to what their leader, or other leaders, said about the antichrist five, ten, or fifty years ago. But with the internet you can see all these stories back to back, as it were, and read across and through them. If you want to, that is.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080753006491117854.post-79092208203672626242013-06-12T08:38:28.627-07:002013-06-12T08:38:28.627-07:00Thanks for your attentive reading! I've read y...Thanks for your attentive reading! I've read your posts on No More Mr. Nice Blog over the years, and am intrigued to now discover how broad your range is. What did you think about the relationship between 19c recirculation and present day blogging? I'd love to hear more. -- Ellen (not Helen)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com