"True, much of what is written online is quotidian, informational, ephemeral. But writing has always been so: traditional newspapers line bird-cages a day later; lab reports describe methodology in tedious detail; the founding fathers wrote what they ate for lunch. And the quality of many blogs is high, indistinguishable in eloquence and intellect from many traditionally published works."

an important read

Now each voice can be heard. Can be. But definitely not all of them. Just screaming wouldn't help. So how to make it sound? That's the question!...

Rules for Poets,
Now That Anyone Can Write

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book."
Marcus Tullius Cicero (January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC)

I liked your comment, Fast T friend :o)

Cicero wrote English and the romans had December and January?
Interesting!

There is still nothing better than a well written story in a book. One that, once you pick it up you're hooked and you don't want to put down until the last word.

@Kreuzberg-Jakob, alas English is the language into which (I trust with a certain allowance for inaccuracy) his words were translated, and in which I put forth a reflection upon the clip here. This quote manages to put in an amusing perspective lot's of the worries we are meeting these days in relation to the abundance of text proeducing. With that said, you certainly make a valid point, as far as i understand it