More and more people have been telling me about their fascination/irritation with blogs that describe in fastidious detail every aspect of their life, inclusive of mouth ulcers, what they ate in the morning, etc, and I've always wondered why such blogs elicit such strong reactions in people.
To put it nicely, I could attribute it to the attraction of what Don Delilo calls 'the shock of people's lives' (Lit S stuff is still lurking in cobwebby corners of my mind). However, I figured its just that some people like the voyeurism involved in reading those blogs, others hate being made to feel like a voyeur.
And it's either one or the other. There are no in betweens, or at least no one I've found that has been left unaffected after reading these 'today at 8 a.m.' posts.
(I tried that in my last post and it's not working wonders- to readership or tags-or maybe it's just too forced to be believable or my life is probably just too uninteresting and lacking in graphic detail of any sort so I give up.)
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