tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post2707040892861396027..comments2024-01-05T20:26:44.857-08:00Comments on Thinking Again: Importing Facebook to My Blog: Facebook Aphorisms 2010 (excerpts)mark wallacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-76694364531409063972010-11-24T09:32:01.397-08:002010-11-24T09:32:01.397-08:00Hi Mark,
Now that you mention it, I'd add Lew...Hi Mark,<br /><br />Now that you mention it, I'd add Lewis Warsh's THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD to the aphoristic longpoem list , which I just read in advance of his reading here. Hard too not to think of the piece you just read with sentences, no one of them longer than a self-help affirmation, addressed to each audience member.rodney khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10515711262628729312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-8010651140162489192010-11-24T06:58:31.189-08:002010-11-24T06:58:31.189-08:00It was really good to see you too, Rodney, and to ...It was really good to see you too, Rodney, and to have a chance to talk about many matters poetic. And yeah, it was nice to read some more extended pieces while up there in Portland.<br /><br />Of course, at least in my own work, and I'm sure in that of a few others, the aphorism and the long poem or book aren't automatically opposites.<br /><br />Consider for instance Nick Piombino's Fait Accompli, a series of shorter musings originally on his blog that of course later became a book. Or, even, all the later novels of David Markson, which are pretty much just aphorisms/quotations looped around an emerging narrative thread. Or also, Harold Jaffe's recent collection Anti-Twitter, which shows just how many full stories you can tell in only 50 words. Not to mention the classical Aphorism, Marcus Aurelius and all that, if I'm getting his name right.<br /><br />When I looked back, at the end of this year, at the sentences I had written for Facebook, it occurred to me that there was a much longer piece already lurking in them. Go figure.mark wallacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047292022080114501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-22457936989215073422010-11-23T23:06:16.951-08:002010-11-23T23:06:16.951-08:00I like these Mark. It was also good to see you up ...I like these Mark. It was also good to see you up here and stretch out past the Twitter-sized aphorism.rodney khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10515711262628729312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-42161531587341887482010-11-23T13:45:28.614-08:002010-11-23T13:45:28.614-08:00My like button finger is itching.My like button finger is itching.Helen Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917007377347655214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3432817549859327458.post-49218367304904769842010-11-23T11:05:38.450-08:002010-11-23T11:05:38.450-08:00They seem best suited to Twitter.They seem best suited to Twitter.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12350813388072485198noreply@blogger.com