Saturday, December 17, 2011

Experiment

I am today conducting an experiment in blogging. I cannot disclose what it is because it might spoil things. In fact, it WILL spoil things so I will just keep quiet about it. I will tell the secret in a few days. I'm sure it will be interesting - at least to me it will.  It is not even necessary to post a picture with this blog - the words will be sufficient.

Ambrose Bierce said: "The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material."

I like the phrase "...edifice of fame."