There is a deadly malady going around Blogger. An infectious disease known as "The Dead Blog Syndrome". This disease is highly contagious. It starts as a lack of desire to write. It gradually consumes you until you are unable to write anything at all.
If you read this, you are vulnerable to The Dead Blog Syndrome". Beware!!!!
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AGP: I think this is only true of some bloggs. I have heard that some people give up blogging for Lent - I don't know about others, but in my own case, I have been posting daily during the non-Sundays of Lent on Catholic Scientists (a curious and little-studied subject), while I am dealing with some other writing, which may appear eventually on Subsidiarity or on my stories.
Though sometimes (again in my own case) what you perceive as dead-blogg is often rather this:
"...He did no work lately; sometimes sat and stared at a blank sheet of paper as if he had no ideas."
"Or as if he had too many," said Gabriel Gale.
[GKC "The Purple Jewel" in The Poet and the Lunatics]
Like a blank sheet of paper, the empty box - whether it be that of a new post or of a new comment - is a dangerous thing. We must use it wisely, since there's so much to write about! Remember what Chesterton said:
...it is very difficult to find an unimportant subject, or even an uninteresting subject. I have gone through most of my life looking for an uninteresting subject - or even an uninteresting person. It is the romance of my life that I have failed to find either of them yet.
[GKC ILN Jan 11 1913 CW29:419]
You are too impatient, agp. One week is not long enough to make a dead blog, and as far as I know, there has not been more than a week between postings on Disciples of diotima...ever.
And I did give up blogging for lent. sort of. Not more than once a day.
Dr. T: That's true. I have heard of a lot of people giving it up for lent. But in my own case, it's summed up pretty much in your Chesterton quote. :-)
OFL: IT WAS A JOKE!!!! I wrote it because I didn't have anything better to say!!!
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