NP: Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit

[Joe Allonby]

"plow the boundaries of Blunderland"? Sorry folks, but that's awesome.

I read Alice's longwinded posts despite their incoherence and
misanthropy for occasional gems of the colorful rhetoric of disdain.



On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:57 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> The assumption that one always writes to be read retards development.
> The rhetorical method: topic purpose, audience, form, or Subject,
> Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker (SOAPS), can provide much needed
> structure and organization to writers in the early stages of
> development, but the conversational method has as much merit as the
> traditional and conventional paragraphing method. Blog away and  aim
> away and text away and scribble away and keep notes in the margin and
> doodle  . . . and pun and play and tom fool errrr,  for it is often
> when we errr that we discover. That a reader must be subjected to our
> errrs is another matter, but to argue that the egg on Alice's face is
> Humpty's yoke is to stretch a weighty metaphor tautologically across
> the broad shoulders of weak oxens and plow the boundaries of
> blunderland.
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> Having said that, I must add that
>>> a) I personally think his statements unnecessarily bald and rude.
>>
>> If these statements were being made in terms of the "Old Atlantic", the "Old
>> New Yorker"—Yes, I would say that they were bald 'n rude and kinda OTT.
>>
>> But in the current realm of blogging, I believe they're a salient
>> corrective. As for the rest—once you're got coherency down, the rest takes
>> care of itself naturally.
>>
>>
>