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Sunday, November 11, 2001 The Assassin's Cloak Re Doc's Dear Everybody musings of today... I bought this book last week at my local Barnes & Noble store despite the $35 it cost me there. I struggled over the decision, because the only reason I bought it was the analogy I'd been thinking about between blogging and diary writing -- the subtitle is "An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists." The book takes its name from this entry by one William Soutar (whoever the fuck he is): "A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen." Sounds like the dude was listening to too much O'Jays. What they do!But nevermind all that. Fortunately, the book's entries aren't limited to poison pen letters. More to the point, aside from a certain archaic -- or, in many cases, <ew!>literary</ew!> -- style, I could imagine these bits and pieces having been culled from olden blogs -- <ew!>if they but had blogs in those bygone days. Ah then, more's the pity they did not.</ew!> None of which is to say I'm coming down definitively on one side or another of the latest how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin debate concerning whether blogs are more like journals, more like diaries, or more like diarrhea. The last option is not my view; just reporting opinions I've heard expressed elsewhere. If I thought that, I would have spent the 35 bucks on Imodium A-D. 6:08 PM | link | 
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