tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post1698392905083430084..comments2024-03-25T13:40:30.747-04:00Comments on Faith and Theology: Michel de Montaigne: the first bloggerBen Myershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03800127501735910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-14275443499506837722009-04-07T18:34:00.000-04:002009-04-07T18:34:00.000-04:00What's his blog nom de plume? I'm there. French, y...What's his blog nom de plume? I'm there. French, you say?roger flyerhttp://rogerflyer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-65494322156453595812009-04-07T16:30:00.000-04:002009-04-07T16:30:00.000-04:00haha...that's pretty good! Learn something new eve...haha...that's pretty good! Learn something new everyday!! It does feel like your mind "bolts off" on some adventure when you get your fingers on the keyboard. :) :) Very nice blog btw. :)<BR/><BR/>God bless,<BR/><BR/>Taylor J. Beisler<BR/>www.taylorbeisler.com<BR/>http://www.eloquentbooks.com/ArintSaratir-WarriorsLight.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-22087037912559236642009-04-07T13:18:00.000-04:002009-04-07T13:18:00.000-04:00Does this make Pascal the first Twitter-er?Does this make Pascal the first Twitter-er?Jeff Olsen Biebighausernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14261952.post-74197158027982890302009-04-07T12:45:00.000-04:002009-04-07T12:45:00.000-04:00Pierre Bayard has a chapter on Montaigne in his tr...Pierre Bayard has a chapter on Montaigne in his très arch <I>How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read</I> (2007). He describes the great blogger - I mean essayist - as "an eminently forgetful reader". Montaigne himself writes:<BR/><BR/>"I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain ... is only material from which my judgment has profited, and the thoughts and ideas with which it has become imbued; the author, the place, the words, and other circumstances, I immediately forget."<BR/><BR/>Indeed, Montaigne forgets his own blogs - or rather books - even when cited to him: "It is no great wonder if my [blog] follows the fate of other [blogs], and if my memory lets go of what I write as of what I read."<BR/><BR/>Bayard concludes:<BR/><BR/>"In every consideration of reading [blogs], we should remain mindful that [blogs] are linked not only to knowledge, but also to loss of memory and even identity. To read [blogs] is not only to inform ourselves, but also, and perhaps above all, to forget, and thus to confront our capacity for oblivion."<BR/><BR/>Blogo, ergo non sum? So is blogging a form of dispossession? No, just a damned effective electronic opiate for the vain, loquacious, and self-indulgent.kim fabriciusnoreply@blogger.com