ERASMUS (c. 1466 - 1536) the Dutch philosopher wrote ; " Creep not upon the earth , my brother, like an animal . Put on those wings which Plato says are caused to grow on the soul by the ardor of love . Rise above the body to the spirit , from the visible to the invisible , from the letter to the mystical meaning , from the sensible to the intelligible , from the involved to the simple . Rise as by rungs until you scale the ladder of Jacob .
A blog , as a literary work , [ as I often describe them] is not a telegram , or an e-mail , and definitely not a twitter or the like ; it shouldn't have necessarily a message to convey , any more than events or characters . In place of themes , one would often disperse and circulate random non-objective symbols and obscure literary allusions throughout the article .
Only well informed readers , and insiders can decode these allusive references , the fact that some words or pictures are unclear is not a problem for them , but a virtue . Sometimes to be serious a blog must be ambiguous , elusive , enigmatic , indeterminable and even opaque .
Length is irrelevant to classification . The point is not quantity of words , but their connection to the events and characters presented in the work .
Most of the times , people reason by doubting , and that leads to questioning , and by questioning they learn the truth . That is an axiom I follow in reasoning and writing blogs .
We are all seekers of truth , we all want to know why and how . Man is the asking animal . And some of us live and strive by the why and the why why !!
A quick explicit explanatory thought . Thanks for your attention .
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