Even the occasional migrant visitor to this modest blog can't fail to notice that I am blogging less frequently than I once did. "Run out of ideas", they probably surmise, before they flit off to the next waystation on their long journey to online enlightenment.
Except that the very opposite is true. I'm brimming over with ideas, my mind is in a state of constant creative ferment, I'm drowning in a fomenting cauldron of witty and original thoughts. Where it's all going wrong is that bit between thinking up an idea and then committing it to paper. Or in this case, to computer. Somewhere during my mental re-writes - and I need all my ideas at least half-formed before I can even think of committing them to paper -the flashes of inspiration are rapidly losing their lustre, the wit becomes tarnished, the original becomes commonplace.
I don't know why this is happening. The process is self-defeating. The more I think about things the less I have to say. Silence hovers over the vacuum, the arid universe expands inexorably, screams are strangled, life flickers and dies in the arid landscape.
Occasionally one half-formed idea, more of a sigh than a statement, does stagger onto the page, blinking in the harsh light of the blogosphere. At times like these I feel like one of those fabled idiot savants, astonished by my unexpected sagacity, startled by the strange, gutteral sound of my own voice.
Except that when I read my words of wisdom I discover to my dismay that I am 90% idiot and only 10% savant.
Your wit becoming tarnished?
ReplyDeleteNot a chance, Bill. :)
cheers
Only 90% idiot? Well, you can't be in the club then!
ReplyDeleteThinking's dangerous. Better cut it out.
ReplyDeleteYou're not drinking enough. The more booze the more clooze to sagacious pontifications. So I've been told by those who wouldn't lie to me.
ReplyDelete-blue