To blog or not to blog...
I have been unusually diligent and finished my reading for uni a full 4 hours before lessons start, thus opening a window of opportunity to blog some more idle thoughts. But I must confess that there are moments when it does seem to be an incredibly vain and futile process.
And yet there is a part of me that enjoys it – the curious part – the part thirsty for useless knowledge, funny quotes and entertaining anecdotes. The part which enjoys stumbling across quotes like the following from the philosopher Bertrand Russell: ‘There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.’
Indeed.
And yet there is a part of me that enjoys it – the curious part – the part thirsty for useless knowledge, funny quotes and entertaining anecdotes. The part which enjoys stumbling across quotes like the following from the philosopher Bertrand Russell: ‘There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.’
Indeed.
Published on October 16, 2012 05:36
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"One or two friends to whom I showed these papers in MS, having observed that they were not half bad, and some of my relations having promised to read the blog if it ever came out, I feel I have no ri
"One or two friends to whom I showed these papers in MS, having observed that they were not half bad, and some of my relations having promised to read the blog if it ever came out, I feel I have no right to longer delay its issue. But for this, as one may say, public demand, I perhaps should not have ventured to offer these mere "idle thoughts" of mine as mental food for the English-speaking peoples of the earth. What readers ask nowadays in a blog is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This blog wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred blogs," you may take this up for half an hour. It will be a change."
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