Gone but Not Forgotten

My Prose Wasn’t Deathless, After All

Last night I got so disgusted with my articles and myself, that I deleted all six pages of titles! They aren’t gone forever because they are saved in My Documents, and I might re-post some of them sometime. I decided no one ever goes back to read articles after a week, so I should remove them. The trouble is that I forgot when I deleted them; I was also deleting all those nice comments! The articles I liked best seemed to get the fewest comments, and many comments indicated the reader really hadn’t understood my irony, or whatever point I was trying to make. That is my fault for not writing clearly. I don’t know so much about any one subject that I should try to enlighten any one else, anyhow. Some topics I have looked up on Wikepedia to sound more as if I knew what I was talking about and it ended up sounding OK to me. After all I can’t write about sunsets, dogs and cats and cattle all the time. I still have some happenings in my life that might entertain someone who likes that sort of thing. I worked for a guy once that, when I asked him for advice would say, “I’ll have to study it.”  So that is what I am going to do.

What brought this on was another article I read. It is written by John Knight (pb), whose articles I greatly respect, and called A Plan to Bring Certainty to This World.  It is a very good article, but it is irony and I didn’t recognize it as such. It was after Thanksgiving dinner and maybe I was too full of turkey and pie to concentrate. The comments that followed were so astute that I finally realize I am way out of my league when I try to write on serious subjects. I probably point out things that are so obvious the readers must shake their heads as they read such drivel. I said it - you don’t have to.

 This is probably all drivel, too. It’s late and I’m going to bed with Alexander the Great, as I read the book Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield. I did a review on a review of this book a couple of weeks ago before I checked it out of the library. It is every bit as good as they said it was.In comparison, it reveals that George W Bush ain't no Alexander the Great!

Good night.