Tuesday, March 23, 2010

I AM HERE TOO... too Mean!?

Indeed it is now very common: people are writing blogs. In the words of the media, popular media to be precise, it is here that people blog out their 'personal space'. I am also a construction of this media, as all of us are in some way or the other. So why not blog my personal space out? in fact I have always wanted to be a writer, a poet living in poverty: very much like the Oscar Wildes and Keats, to give examples which are common; canonically common- once again to be precise! Precision. A devil damn word it is. (i don't always prefer using god damn!) Indeed it is very difficult to be precise, to say what you want to mean, and to mean what you want to mean. Yes the double emphasis. It is very naive of us when we say that we mean this or 'so you mean this!?' We can never mean anything because there is no meaning without being precise, and vice versa. Yes if you are thinking I have read Derrida then you are not totally wrong. But i will take it a bit forward. Precision comes only when we are aware, when we are conscious rather, what do we want to mean. When we understand what is the argument we want to put forward, and what is the objective behind putting forward this argument- this is what I mean when I say we must be conscious of what we want to mean! It is because of this ignorance that we tend to use too many words, and especially too many dots these days. In fact i get flustered when i read the messages which drop in my inbox everyday. I will give you one example: 'hey... bonjour... gotta know that you were in town last night... ' Now my simple and humble question is this. Does not my friend know that the three dots (...) make a punctuation mark, especially when the sense is left incomplete, and that too in literature? In fact using these three dots is technically called ellipsis. Just as you have the ! and ? marks. Now what does one claim when these are used? Is s/he trying to subvert the common and simple grammar of a language and trying to purport a post post-modern version of grammar? or is it some kind of an alankaram? Whatever may be the case it is surely a popular innovation, but ironically it's a one which makes our work more complicated and subverts the whole notion of innovation. A post modern innovation may be, if i can call it innovation at all. So long for now, i will get back with ideas and opinions later. As of now good bye . . . oops! i'm a construction too!

3 comments:

  1. hey debayan.. good start.. finally u started bloggin..:) keep writing.. n wats with the pink format of the blog.. waiting to read more of ur posts!

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  2. yooo macha !...the name should be- "its me and my pinkworld" ...hehehe !

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  3. mmm... am also... using... the... ellipsis... in... contrdictary way... ha.. ha.. hey! just 4 jest dont take it serious. bye!!!!! carry on your blog work.

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