Today's Great Thought
Jun. 4th, 2012 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrishansenhomeEssayist E. B. White wrote in the foreword to his collection of essays:
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. … Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
("Essays of E. B. White," p vii, Harper & Row, 1977.)
Bloggers, take note! The Internet wasn't in general existence in 1977 and blogging didn't happen until the 1990's, but substitute "blogger" for "essayist", please.
I number myself in those who must take note, of course. Thanks to Canon Quirk for drawing my attention to this quote.
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. … Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
("Essays of E. B. White," p vii, Harper & Row, 1977.)
Bloggers, take note! The Internet wasn't in general existence in 1977 and blogging didn't happen until the 1990's, but substitute "blogger" for "essayist", please.
I number myself in those who must take note, of course. Thanks to Canon Quirk for drawing my attention to this quote.
