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Glimmer Spotlight 1
Mar. 8th, 2015 07:47 amI've been wanting to comment on an ever-increasing number of Mark Sinker posts, especially this on Freaky Trigger where he continues a convo (prior installment here) that, among other things, draws on my hallway-classroom metaphor. Here's a preliminary map (or something) of how I might start responding, when I get the chance.*
1. I'll start with the question, "What would Mark say that he's saying here?" although, in order for this to be an exercise in understanding rather than typing, I'll try wherever possible to avoid using the words he uses.
Or you should try, if you want to anticipate me in taking a shot at it. Also, "saying" is a generic here that includes "doing."
2. You can walk and chew gum at the same time.
In other words, if I say or do A, that doesn't necessarily mean I'm not also saying or doing B, C, D, E, and F, including some K's and L's and M's I'm unaware of.
3. A special instance of the principle "You can walk and chew gum at the same time" is my attack on the hallway-classroom split.
The split goes, in the hallway you talk to and about each other; in the classroom you talk about some third thing: the subject matter. My claim is that good rock critics don't buy into this divide, so they refuse to honor the boundary between hallway and classroom.
4. I'm an alienation addict.
( Notes )
*Posting here on my lj since I don't know if Freaky Trigger has fixed its spam filter problems, which had been delaying the posting of comments on old threads.
1. I'll start with the question, "What would Mark say that he's saying here?" although, in order for this to be an exercise in understanding rather than typing, I'll try wherever possible to avoid using the words he uses.
Or you should try, if you want to anticipate me in taking a shot at it. Also, "saying" is a generic here that includes "doing."
2. You can walk and chew gum at the same time.
In other words, if I say or do A, that doesn't necessarily mean I'm not also saying or doing B, C, D, E, and F, including some K's and L's and M's I'm unaware of.
3. A special instance of the principle "You can walk and chew gum at the same time" is my attack on the hallway-classroom split.
The split goes, in the hallway you talk to and about each other; in the classroom you talk about some third thing: the subject matter. My claim is that good rock critics don't buy into this divide, so they refuse to honor the boundary between hallway and classroom.
4. I'm an alienation addict.
( Notes )
*Posting here on my lj since I don't know if Freaky Trigger has fixed its spam filter problems, which had been delaying the posting of comments on old threads.
