tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post8881360016121690373..comments2023-08-18T19:57:30.372+10:00Comments on humanities researcher: Three Excruciatingly Personal Blog Entries, No.1This old world is a new worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-68297126684744422262008-01-29T08:39:00.000+11:002008-01-29T08:39:00.000+11:00Let me apologise for whatever part I played in you...Let me apologise for whatever part I played in your sleepless nights. I think that, by removing the part of your post that had you worried, you're not cheating the blog genre, just engaging in it. You asked: who gets to post? Anyone who wants to, for as long as your blog is unrestricted. Who gets to delete? You do. (And probably the company providing the blog space.) That you are in charge of theDavid Thornbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12129481335342570688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-44555151933660791872008-01-28T10:20:00.000+11:002008-01-28T10:20:00.000+11:00Hm. What did I mean by brave?It wasn't so much abo...Hm. What did I mean by brave?<BR/><BR/>It wasn't so much about putting up the piece. I think it was about <I>writing</I> the piece -- ordering and verbalising that complex chain of experience to see where it would take you. And also partly about the prospect of writing the two to come. Maybe 'fearless' would be a better word. 'Brave' has stronger implications that there is in fact something to beKerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-37509802960556865262008-01-27T23:28:00.000+11:002008-01-27T23:28:00.000+11:00Thanks, all, for comments. I must admit, I read P'...Thanks, all, for comments. I must admit, I read P's C's and David's comments about bravery and courage, and didn't sleep all that well last night, toying with coming downstairs and deleting the post. Still, I haven't, yet...<BR/><BR/>Weirdly, though, in the middle of the night, I remembered such an odd thing, at a conference, in summer, years ago, standing in a group, and next to a woman I knew This old world is a new worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567163294720510335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-32783305928035396382008-01-27T21:04:00.000+11:002008-01-27T21:04:00.000+11:00I loved this post Stephanie, although it made me c...I loved this post Stephanie, although it made me cringe a little, remembering times I've felt that my experience or something I've said has been hijacked by some artist or another. I understand if you feel that HR might have to end - but if it does fold, I hope you start something else: it would be sad to lose you from the blogosphere.Meredith Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977264379899180896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-90951547089226754652008-01-27T02:57:00.000+11:002008-01-27T02:57:00.000+11:00A really interesting meditation on the transformat...A really interesting meditation on the transformations and co-optations that art undertakes, the personal/private, poetry and blogs. <BR/><BR/>Anyone writing in either of the latter two forms has to think about such boundaries (though especially the latter). It's a jarring thing, though, isn't it, to find oneself a character or visitor in someone else's work?<BR/><BR/>I hope HR isn't coming to a Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-40514391656473792802008-01-26T22:44:00.000+11:002008-01-26T22:44:00.000+11:00I'm not convinced that I can make a reply to this ...I'm not convinced that I can make a reply to this that does your post justice; however, some things sprang to mind. First, how courageous! Second, it would be a damned shame to see Humanities Researcher (the blog) fold, or wind up, or wind down. Though if you really meant to indicate that it's merely winding sort of sideways, well that's alright!<BR/><BR/>Third, I've never been interested in a David Thornbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12129481335342570688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-71559343884802768342008-01-26T20:58:00.000+11:002008-01-26T20:58:00.000+11:00Not in the mirror -- it mixes up lefts and rights....Not in the mirror -- it mixes up lefts and rights.<BR/><BR/>What a brave woman you are. <BR/><BR/>I once recognised an old lover in another woman's passionate story about him (ie "about" "him"), which included comparable physical details only a lover would both know and remember (and the degree of deranged rage this invoked would surprise even you, who know my capacity for deranged rage better Kerryn Goldsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11270814460793882309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31107360.post-56775949125254722912008-01-26T20:53:00.000+11:002008-01-26T20:53:00.000+11:00I can't tell you how fast you have just made my he...I can't tell you how fast you have just made my heart beat. For one zillion reasons.<BR/><BR/>Which is another way of saying, what a brilliant post. Which is, in turn, another way of saying, I'll be sad if this blog is winding up.ThirdCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961559066632251691noreply@blogger.com