OK, I have to admit I had to google up whether it was that reference but it was :D
I'm wondering how much of it is taste and how much a certain social pressure to actually not appear quiet that young in my choice on clothing. My current place of works tends to a more conservative clothing style than previously (less academia, more corporate influence because of who we mainly deal with) but the change did not start with the move.
Oh, absolutely about the lines being much more blurry.
LJ/DW is the epitome of emitting for me - also influencing, I guess, which to me is almost the same as emitting in this context, because this is where I get an immediate reaction ... I also very much write it as something that is supposed to start conversation; I read many people who write more of a diary and while I enjoy reading their LJs/DWs, it's not something I could write. (It was similar back when I was younger and writing letters with pen-pals ...)
Your second to last paragraph - this gave me a lot of thought, actually. Scientific work is, in a way, easier - there is a direct measurement for how much the world received your work as citation keep trickling in, one by one, year after a year. Even if I leave the field, it would be easy to look back on a paper 10 years on and see if somebody still found it relevant in the meantime. For some reason I never stopped to think how different it is with literary writing - not that the writing is the same, but the sending out a piece of you own (mind? soul? thinking? ideas?) into the world, this one may be similar.
And you know that I love long comments, especially such long thoughtful ones that make me think.
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I'm wondering how much of it is taste and how much a certain social pressure to actually not appear quiet that young in my choice on clothing. My current place of works tends to a more conservative clothing style than previously (less academia, more corporate influence because of who we mainly deal with) but the change did not start with the move.
Oh, absolutely about the lines being much more blurry.
LJ/DW is the epitome of emitting for me - also influencing, I guess, which to me is almost the same as emitting in this context, because this is where I get an immediate reaction ... I also very much write it as something that is supposed to start conversation; I read many people who write more of a diary and while I enjoy reading their LJs/DWs, it's not something I could write. (It was similar back when I was younger and writing letters with pen-pals ...)
Your second to last paragraph - this gave me a lot of thought, actually. Scientific work is, in a way, easier - there is a direct measurement for how much the world received your work as citation keep trickling in, one by one, year after a year. Even if I leave the field, it would be easy to look back on a paper 10 years on and see if somebody still found it relevant in the meantime. For some reason I never stopped to think how different it is with literary writing - not that the writing is the same, but the sending out a piece of you own (mind? soul? thinking? ideas?) into the world, this one may be similar.
And you know that I love long comments, especially such long thoughtful ones that make me think.