I’m sometimes amazed by the sort of pointless, air-headed comments that proliferate on some people’s blogs. I look at the kind of comments I get on my blog and appreciate how lucky I am to have such people around my cyber space. You’re becoming family.
Maybe I shouldn’t have said that. I know it takes all sorts...
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However, it is important to know how to deal with so called "air-headed people" and always interesting to get different perspectives.
I agree on the first part, but not the second. I'm not talking about different perspectives, I'm talking about no perspectives. I'm talking about the trotting out, ad nauseum, of the same, system-conditioned responses that have no value or honestly considered thought behind them. I fail to see how that can remotely be described as 'interesting.'
Good to know you don't think I'm an airhead though I don't know always know what to do with your philosophical statements or rhyming ditties (the latter might be a cultural problem, us Americans can be such a bore). Still thinking about where decisions leave one and all that, but appreciated the Macbeth murdering sleep line, which made the whole problem poetic somehow.
Della! Airhead? C'mon!
I had reservations about making this post. It's been on my mind for a little while, and it surfaced as an issue over some cross-commenting that was happening on somebody else's blog. Frankly, I felt that a bunch of 'airheads' (for want of a better term) were giving a woman in emotional difficulty exactly what she didn't need. Long story. I felt a consequent need to let off steam, so I couched it terms that I hoped would be complimentary, rather than a negative, seemingly supercilious rant. There was more to it than that.
And I find that making a problem poetic can help a bit. Pretentious? Moi?
Curious who the woman and blog in question are, but understand that you cannot say. This gets added, Jeff, to the list of your cryptic topics and unmentionable details, keeping us at the edge of our seats! :) But yes, I also follow the comments sometimes and find it fascinating how some people don't seem to "get it" and/or respond at cross purposes. Maybe we all tend to latch on to one idea only and then run with it. Good way to learn how to write dialogue. Have you ever noticed how bad dialogue is in films when people actually finish sentences and answer each other? Am I off topic?
No intention to be cryptic, Della. It isn't one of my usual circle of blogs, just one that intrigues because it informs me of one angle of teenage perception, a topic that seems to interest me at the moment. I only mentioned it to explain what persuaded me to make the post.
And yes, I have noticed that problem with films and other drama. I suppose the difficulty is that sometimes it's the only way of communicating what a character is thinking. Literature has the added facility for commentary, don't you think?
Yes, I think it does. But also effective if characters don't necessarily respond to others, but draw the conversation toward themselves, and about themselves, as many people do in real life. Truth is the most interesting but especially so when fiction highlights its curiosities. Also fun to just sit in a pub, have a beer, and be relaxed enough to notice these things without reading or watching anything. You know? Oh yes, and teens are an interesting subject, too.
I suppose this is where the best directors and screenwriters come into their own. They know how to put over what is effcectively a commentary by other means than just dialogue.
As for drawing the conversation towards ourselves, wouldn't know. Never done it. Imagine ten lines of haha... Save me typing it.
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