While dithering over the alphabetization of double surnames I began to read; this keeps happening to me, the reading (though dithering moments occur often too).
Ivy C-B is the very first blogger. She had no internet but her whole mode of communication is by the spoken word alone. Every persona, every place, every emotion, every crisis, dilemma, horridness, kindness, disaster is told by speech.
Take Parents and Children,
"I suppose my thoughts are nothing to be proud of"
"Then they are different from the rest of you my dear".
We know at once we have a woman and her husband, a dissatisfied woman, and a husband fending off (with skill from experience) her dissatisfaction. Within a half dozen lines she has nine children, a very large house which belongs to her husband's parents, a mother in law not yielding position.....
The art of blogging is the creation of persona, and position without any of the tools used in real social exchange.
To post as Anonymous is to empty any post of interest, a random shout from the darkness, a worthless interjection from a non person.
All of Ivy's posters are bursting with life and reality. Must get back to these Parents now - the Children should be along any moment.
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someone should do some Ivy Compton-Burnett greetings cards...
"..if you are to be at home today, you must have tea in the nursery and go early to bed. When we are not well, we must not behave quite like well people, must we?"
(a get well card)
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