Hello everyone On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Matt Kundert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Dan, > > Dan said: > I don't give two good dams for the reader, much less an ideal > reader. > > Matt: > I think, in the vocabulary established by the idea of an "ideal reader" > (which follows out of the Pirsigian position that it's all rhetoric), > what you're saying is that you are your own ideal reader. Does that > sound more hospitable?
Hi Matt That's an interesting way of putting it. Still, I find to be my own reader I need to distance myself from my work to the point of it no longer seeming to be my work. Now, as I write I do go back reading over what I wrote often times talking out loud to get a sense of how the spoken words roll off my tongue properly (or don't). If something doesn't "sound" right I'll correct it. Still... all in all I find I am dissatisfied with my writings to the point of embarrassment. I tell myself that I'll never write another word, ever. I wonder how I could ever presume to share a word of my writings with anyone else. But then I go ahead and do so anyway. I'm not sure why... Does that sound like an ideal reader? >Matt: > As Dave said, it's just a heuristic, but in terms of philosophy, if it is > all rhetoric, that means there is always an audience. However, > sometimes that audience is just yourself. Dan: Perhaps. Here's to uneasy feelings... Dan Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
