This is it. This post will set the tone for the rest of this blog. In your first post you can say and do almost anything you like; people will understand. "He's new to this - let's give him the benefit of the doubt". Your second post is where you nail your colours to the mast - from here on out all posts must, in some way, follow on from this one. Will I turn this blog into a narcissistic display of inane monologue centred around the trivialities of my life; or will I use it as an on-line analogue of Speakers' Corner, where I can preach from my cyber-soapbox? This is the time to decide.
Actually, it's not. It's late, and I'm tired. The anticlimax be damned; I'm off to bed.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
So it begins...
A blog, huh? Didn't see that one coming, did you? You can be forgiven for being surprised - after all, my opinion of blogs to date has been somewhat scathing. I have, however, decided that if you can't beat'em, you'd better join them - which is exactly what I've decided to do. I will create a blog where I will ramble on about anything and everything that takes my fancy. This is my corner of the limelight, and, in true blogger tradition, I intend to squander it with inane posts. Ha! That ought to show them...
Perhaps I should start with and explanation of the name of the blog, and the URL. Cithoge is taken from the book Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor. The quote goes like this:
'Echoes of Silence' is just a phrase that struck me once - the oxymoronic nature of it seems fitting enough. It also has a nice 'koan' feel to it; perhaps foreshadowing the absurd, yet thought-provoking posts to come? Only time will tell...
Anyway, this is enough rambling for the opening post - there'll be plenty of time for that later. Welcome to the blog - make yourself at home!
Perhaps I should start with and explanation of the name of the blog, and the URL. Cithoge is taken from the book Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor. The quote goes like this:
His apparent fear of daylight and love of the darkness led some of the imaginative to call him 'a cithoge'; a weird supernatural of Irish legend, the child of a faerie and a mortal man, possessed of the power to curse and conjure.It instantly struck a chord with me, and when I later needed a username for a forum somewhere, Cithoge seemed as good a choice as any. Now I've grown quite fond of it - and what better way to express this than using it for my blog!
'Echoes of Silence' is just a phrase that struck me once - the oxymoronic nature of it seems fitting enough. It also has a nice 'koan' feel to it; perhaps foreshadowing the absurd, yet thought-provoking posts to come? Only time will tell...
Anyway, this is enough rambling for the opening post - there'll be plenty of time for that later. Welcome to the blog - make yourself at home!
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