For some reason, this is easier on Facebook. I think because of the built-in audience. I've spent most of my life alternating between fearing and seeking invisibility, which is the flip-side of seeking and avoiding being the cynosure. Great word, huh? Love that word: cynosure. Anyway, Blogger feels lonely to me. Here I am, in my little cage, trying to communicate to ... who, exactly?
Whereas on Facebook, because it is a social networking site first, putting down random thoughts -- edited on the fly and posted hastily without too much craft -- doesn't seem so much an exersize in modern alienation as an amplification of intimacy.
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Carol Bly, who
got me all fired up about connections between neuroscience and morality and art.
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- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante
I don't even have anything to say, but I want to be loved so badly, and in so many ways...
ReplyDeleteIf I only had the patience to be a blogger...
So, is that why I entered the miniStories competition?
Fifteen minutes of "cynosure."