Blue Notes - Couverture souple

Hamer, John Faithful

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1499301723 ISBN 13 : 9781499301724

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

BLUE NOTES: When I was seven-years-old, my uncle Nigel was kind enough to take me to the movies with his two kids (my cousins). Apparently my running commentary was maddening. I talked so much through the movie that my frustrated five-year-old cousin Louis-Nicolas started crying. He turned to his father and said: “Does he ever shut up?” I like to think I've changed. But I doubt it. Because this book is largely a product of me being unable to shut up on Facebook. At present, Facebook's character limit on status updates is 63,206. Calling this a “limit” is vaguely ridiculous (like calling a big guy “Tiny”). You can now cut and paste the first 20 chapters of The Bible into a Facebook status update! But this wasn't always the case. Like Twitter, Facebook used to place limits on the size of status updates. If you wanted to articulate a thought more fully, you had to write a Facebook note. And since I've always been a rather long-winded guy, I ended up writing a lot of them (close to a 1,000). My six-year-old son Indie once referred to these Facebook notes as “blue notes” (a reference, no doubt, to Facebook's love of all things blue), and the name stuck. This book began as a series of blue notes, written on various topics, between 2008-2014. In The Joyful Wisdom (1887), Nietzsche rightly observes that “the way people write letters” will always be the true “sign of the times.” And how do we write letters today? Where is “the style and spirit” of them made manifest? In the aphoristic nature of the tweet, the rough and ready, martial practicality of the text, and the confessional intimacy of the Facebook status update. There is a kind of savage beauty to the literary culture of Social Media Land that charms me to no end. If Blue Notes has a goal, it's to convey something of that savage beauty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Faithful Hamer is a college professor who still can’t swim, drive, or pay his bills on time. His sense of direction is notoriously unreliable, yet he’d love to tell you where to go. His lack of practical skills is astounding, and his inability to fix things is renowned, yet he’d love to tell you what to do. His mismanagement of time is legendary, as is his inability to remember appointments, yet he fancies himself a philosopher and would love to tell you how to live. He wouldn’t survive in a state of nature, of that we can be sure; but he’s doing quite well in the big city, which has always been a refuge for the ridiculous, a haven for the helpless, and a friend to the frivolous.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1499301723
• ISBN 13: 9781499301724
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible