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Das Tagebuch Murnaus
"The Internet is a vanity press for the demented."
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Created on 2017-04-09 03:47:58 (#2975994), last updated 2024-11-15 (22 weeks ago)
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| Name: | ltmurnau |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | Oct 24 |
| Location: | Canada |
Canadian. Nice person, generally. Probably interested in too many things. Normally creative but not creatively normal. Honest and straightforward to a fault. Getting weirder by the day. INTP (or INTJ, if I'm feeling misanthropic).
The journal subtitle quote is from Erik-Lars Nelson (1941-2000), a former columnist for the New York Daily News. It comes from a piece he wrote for the Shorenstein Centre at Harvard University:
"Any newspaper person who has logged onto an Internet news group will recognize many of the contributors at once: They are the same obsessives who write dense postcards in tiny script that covers all available space and then continues around the edge, often continuing with a P.S. on the address side. These are cards and letters the newspapers routinely do not print; the Internet, by contrast, is a vanity press for the demented, the conspiratorial or the merely self-important."
"Often times, it seems that the only difference between children and the insane is pride of workmanship." - Cornelius Bear, Achewood
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." –John Rogers, on the blog Kung Fu Monkey, as quoted on rec.arts.sf.written by James Nicoll
The journal subtitle quote is from Erik-Lars Nelson (1941-2000), a former columnist for the New York Daily News. It comes from a piece he wrote for the Shorenstein Centre at Harvard University:
"Any newspaper person who has logged onto an Internet news group will recognize many of the contributors at once: They are the same obsessives who write dense postcards in tiny script that covers all available space and then continues around the edge, often continuing with a P.S. on the address side. These are cards and letters the newspapers routinely do not print; the Internet, by contrast, is a vanity press for the demented, the conspiratorial or the merely self-important."
"Often times, it seems that the only difference between children and the insane is pride of workmanship." - Cornelius Bear, Achewood
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." –John Rogers, on the blog Kung Fu Monkey, as quoted on rec.arts.sf.written by James Nicoll
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