… As The Blogger Said

I think I like most a writing whose source is obscure, a buried writing. Do not link to a blog where the photograph of its author looks at you face on: it is unbearable. The author should look away, or her image be replaced by one of someone else: might it then be possible to use an analogue of that old phrase, ‘… as the poet said’ when you quote another? ‘… As the blogger said’: but now to refer to any blogger, all bloggers, and we are all the same, falling through our lives together.

Perhaps you should always set your post to appear in the future, as is possible on Typepad. To let your words survive you, and survive everything (but a writing is not truly neglected when you have to pay a subscription for your account …)

Mandelstam: ‘I wake from the dead/ to say the sun is shining.’ But when did he write those lines? Was he was already a prisoner? The miracle: those words reached us. But also that the sun is shining, as I can write of this bright morning.