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                            Through Journals Darkly
                                        
> But from this reserve of suffering, of pain, of loss and of being
> victimized by the selfish, the best personal writing happens. Because
> conflict, whether it be humorous or melancholy, is something with which an
> individual can trace the actions. Conflict is the pinnacle of existence
> and, if properly dwelled upon, it can be an absolutely powerful device to
> launch personal writing.
> 
> And yet why is it that today's personal writing on the Internet refrains
> from veering down these dark roads? Is it because we are ensnared by the
> conveniences of technology? Or is it because, as I suggested in Part 1 of
> this essay [1], we're simply lazy, wanting to get that blog entry up before
> anybody else?
> 

“the decline of personal writing, part 2 [2]”

Another reason is privacy. While I would like to mention an incident that
happened last week that lead to my loosing physical access to one of my
client's offices (I had access to the office 24/7) it's not really the domain
of this journal to record such incidents. Not everything I do is recorded
here for a variety of reasons (to protect myself and/or friends).

So I make it a point to avoid the entries that go:

> Something momentuous happened to me today but I really can't say what …
> 

[1] http://www.edrants.com/082000.htm#082100
[2] http://www.edrants.com/082800.htm#090400

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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