There are some things in life completely unfathomable to the average person such as I. Why is the sky blue? Why do political leopards groom themselves immaculately but never think to change their spots? Why is there so much yelling and the waving of the arms about a financial crisis anyone with two neurons to rub together has known and talked about for at least two years? And why is a brilliant prescient writer like George Orwell so freaking boring?
Seriously… if Orwell was a blogger there is no way in hell many people would read him. But, that said, I’m finding his diaries strangely compelling because they are so unbelievably mundane. I’m actually feeling like I’m learning about Morocco in the 1930s. And it’s absolutely nothing like that romanticised film!
I mean, who knew that Moroccan goats were smaller than the English variety! Who knew that the Foriegn Legion was mostly staffed by ruffians of poor stature? Who knew that Jews and Arabs shared the same social status?
It’s like a little vision of the past, but with lots of meaningless blather about types of animals…
16 October, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Next stop after Orwell would be the excellent diaries of Samuel Pepys, the original (?) historic blog diary. In yesterday’s entry, he got a haircut, how exciting! Plus he also enjoyed some fine singing:
And so in a very pleasant evening back to Mr. Povy’s, and there supped, and after supper to talke and to sing, his man Dutton’s wife singing very pleasantly (a mighty fat woman), and I wrote out one song from her and pricked the tune, both very pretty. But I did never heare one sing with so much pleasure to herself as this lady do, relishing it to her very heart, which was mighty pleasant.
http://www.pepysdiary.com/
17 October, 2008 at 8:36 am
I submit this effort, “The Dullest Blog in the World”
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull/
17 October, 2008 at 9:17 am
I like Burroughs’ version of Tangiers – not quite so mundane
And goats CAN be intereting. I am only say that because happened to come across some type of African goat this week which was HUGE – as in nearly the size of a pony.