Watch this spot every Tuesday for a new quote. ...in other words...A journal writing prompt or "meme"
How to PlayCopy the current quotation(s) to your weblog or paper journal, then use it as a writing prompt.Do you agree with the message in the quote? Do you disagree? Would you have phrased this thought differently? What does this quote remind you of? What does it make you think of? Why quotations?I'm a great fan (and collector) of quotations. In my travels through the Web, I' ve noticed that other people collect quotations as well. It occurred to me that a game of quotes could form an interesting basis for a web meme. (This must be a good idea; a few weeks after I thought of it, I read a suggestion for a very similar journ aling technique based on quotes! Bravo for Synchronicity!)
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ...
though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition.
Some authors we quote against.
Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance,
and so make them part of our "white mythology."
Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral
rituals
of propitiation or ancestor worship.
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