Tuesday 13 January 2009

Overheard Elsewhere

"Within the biological scheme of things all facts are equal, but in the historical world some facts are more equal than others."
"So history is the record of extraordinary biological acts?"
"Perhaps you could say that."
"But extraordinary to whom? Who decides?"
"Historians."
"Who are?"
"A type of creature that feeds on historical facts."
"So which came first- history or the historian?"
"I would say they are simultaneous in their appearance within the realm of existence."

5 comments:

Gar said...

You ever think about changing the name of your blog? Makes it impossible to find. Anyway glad to see you're still enlightening the masses of the blogsphere. Pretty quiet around here though actually isn't it?

Gar said...

This bastard has the blog title you should have and he hasn't feckin posted anything since 2008: http://olinloa.wordpress.com/

BTW: new word for you: "netsam" = historical web-based shite (like jetsam only on the web) see above.

Andrew said...

I've been quiet myself for a bit. I think to have any hope of getting a bigger- some would say better- crowd, I'd have to go on other sites regularly making comments but not sufficient desire to do said activities with any great gusto.
As for the blog title, that's the best thing about the effing blog.

Gar said...

I always thought it was meant to be "in absentia" without the "t"? In terms of increasing traffic to the blog though there are probably a few things you could try, like submitting your site to search engines and various directories, offering RSS etc. Alternatively you could just give it a funky new name: like sexfuckteenpics or pregnanynakednuns or something, follow the zeitgeist man...

Andrew said...

It is supposed to be without a 't', which is why I included the 't' in my ongoing, if low-key, assault on contemptible, mind-fading banality. Good points all, but a kind of slogan of Irishness I thought of a while back might sum up my position: "It's not that we don't care. It's just that we couldn't be arsed."