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oddduck aishatokovic

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Good cats. I am looking forward to more cat-based postings.

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balckwell updated Balckwell Online

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balckwell 3 months ago

wrote a brand new "about" page, and added the bones of a page for my long-form literary criticism, which i will be uploading in the near future

sorbier updated sorbier

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balckwell updated Balckwell Online

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oddduck updated oddduck

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cometpustoj emilynhoward

3 months ago

thx for following, love your poems <3

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emilynhoward 3 months ago

Thank you! ^_^

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sorbier updated sorbier

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balckwell updated Balckwell Online

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tonoplace updated tonoplace - little internet space

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henryperyer updated Henry Peryer

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sorbier saddleblasters

3 months ago

thanks for pointing out the delineation of xiang3 vs think. it's tempting to draw conclusions about what the two languages presume is primarily on your mind (desires vs beliefs). in general i think it's really fun to observe how the two different language (families) draw lines around concepts and group them into words -- thinking/speaking in mandarin changes how i think about things compared to english.

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sorbier 3 months ago

that said i think (haha, jue2de) that the average mandarin word performs more roles than the average english word, which renders mandarin more figurative/conceptual broadly. apologies for stating it so definitively though -- agree that it's totally my subjective impression.

balckwell updated Balckwell Online

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balckwell 3 months ago

new essay: IS THIS WEBSITE A VALID LITERARY MEDIUM? -- in which i do, in fact, get around to answering the question

saddleblasters 3 months ago

I know we've been talking back and forth about this topic for the past year and the half, but seeing your thoughts on it all written down in a single essay was the exact jolt of motivation I needed to get out of bed and continue the neverending battle of sitting with my hands on my keyboard in bewilderment, trying once again to write

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sorbier 3 months ago

thanks beautifully for this essay, i resonate with a lot with your approach to your website. i've also been thinking about the essays in compiled form, yes all together on the website, but also perhaps in one volume (book). just like how an artist or photographer's disparate works gain a different meaning when combined and sequenced in one larger exhibit.

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sorbier 3 months ago

i wonder what you think about "releasing a collection of essays" as it were.

balckwell 3 months ago

i've definitely thought about publishing a collection, but i know how much work it is to publish a book by one's self, and i don't know if i'd necessarily get enough out of it (creatively) to justify the whole thing. i am much more interested in archival than anything else -- for example, i tend to go for "complete works" rather than "collected works" when i have the opportunity.

balckwell 3 months ago

when creating my website, i've been thinking a lot about whether i'd like to organize the essays chronologically or by subject matter. setting aside the difficulty of determining the subject matter and/or type of many of my essays, i personally tend to prefer chronological organization, so that i can understand the writer's development over time.

balckwell 3 months ago

and that's how i tend to think of my essays: each as part as a long journey. and this is how i've always read websites/blogs i like -- starting from the very beginning. so my trouble in curating a collection would be: do i want to publish a BEST OF BALCKWELL? or do i want to publish archival volumes? and one way to solve this dilemma is to do neither.

henryperyer updated Henry Peryer

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sorbier balckwell

3 months ago

"It makes it seem like people who read/speak Chinese do so in some utterly alien way": yes, thanks for verbalising part of why I didn't like it. also, I hadn't thought about word-by-word as mostly for illustrating grammatical construction, but it makes a lot of sense! i agree (:

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