Comments on: Wittgenstein’s silence http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html A writer neither here nor there Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:18:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: kathryn http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-34678 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:50:36 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-34678 Hi Nick, thanks for stopping by. Yes, interesting that both the public blog and the private journal contain personal material, but we separate between that which we'd like others to read and that which we would rather others not. So when we are doing personal writing we are not always writing for ourselves, but even in our most private scribbling do we still, always, have a sense of the reader? Somewhere in the back of our minds, that this piece of paper/journal might be found and read? To write completely for ourselves, would be have to write and then destroy immediately? Anyway, I'm reading Fowles's journals and he talks about the "question of intimacy in style" in a December 1949 entry. "...the objectivist always writes for a potential reader other than himself; he is never half alone and chez soi, never getting to the rock-bottom of things, for the style affects the expresssion. The subjectivist writes purely for himself, egoistically saying a thing in the way which seems to himself best to express exactly his own view of it. All creation tends to one of these poles, which are, very approximately, classical and romantic. This is an interesting test to perform on all memoirists and diarists." Hi Nick, thanks for stopping by. Yes, interesting that both the public blog and the private journal contain personal material, but we separate between that which we’d like others to read and that which we would rather others not. So when we are doing personal writing we are not always writing for ourselves, but even in our most private scribbling do we still, always, have a sense of the reader? Somewhere in the back of our minds, that this piece of paper/journal might be found and read? To write completely for ourselves, would be have to write and then destroy immediately?

Anyway, I’m reading Fowles’s journals and he talks about the “question of intimacy in style” in a December 1949 entry.

“…the objectivist always writes for a potential reader other than himself; he is never half alone and chez soi, never getting to the rock-bottom of things, for the style affects the expresssion. The subjectivist writes purely for himself, egoistically saying a thing in the way which seems to himself best to express exactly his own view of it. All creation tends to one of these poles, which are, very approximately, classical and romantic. This is an interesting test to perform on all memoirists and diarists.”

]]> by: Nick Luft http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-31790 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:50:38 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-31790 I find writing a blog -- as you rightly call it, a public monologue -- is good for me. I find expressing myself in it good for me. That some others read it also, is a bonus. I used to write up an occasional journal in notebooks, in the days of yore, before the net. I still do resort to handwritten entries in this journal for the really personal stuff. Again, I find writing expresses me to me better than any other method of communicating. I find writing a blog — as you rightly call it, a public monologue — is good for me. I find expressing myself in it good for me. That some others read it also, is a bonus.

I used to write up an occasional journal in notebooks, in the days of yore, before the net. I still do resort to handwritten entries in this journal for the really personal stuff. Again, I find writing expresses me to me better than any other method of communicating.

]]> by: kathryn http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-28777 Thu, 31 May 2007 18:37:05 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-28777 Thanks for stopping by, Debra! Thanks for stopping by, Debra!

]]> by: Debra http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-28767 Thu, 31 May 2007 17:09:15 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/wittgensteins-silence.html#comment-28767 What a coincidence, I was thinking about you recently and visited your blog yesterday or the day before. Good to see you back in the blogiverse What a coincidence, I was thinking about you recently and visited your blog yesterday or the day before.

Good to see you back in the blogiverse

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