Comments on LJ events you're already bored with

[resonant]

1. Love memes (like the one going on at queenofthorns right now) are much easier these days now that LJ introduced its little thumbtack icon! You can track the entire discussion (to see if anyone you know comments asking for love), or you can track your anonymous comment (so you can see if the person replies to it). It's very cool.

2. Some of the discussion on helenish's Take Clothes Off As Directed seems to be implying that it's a brand-new (and unfair) thing to comment on/criticize a piece of literature by writing another piece of literature in response to it.

But this sort of conversation between two literary works is at least as old as when Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ("Come live with me and be my love/And we will all the pleasures prove") and Sir Walter Raleigh replied with The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd ("If all the world and love were young/And truth on every shepherd's tongue ...").

Comments

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

You're the only one who knows what you can tolerate, be it disagreement in discussion or criticism of a story (which for many aren't the same kind of painful.) You should do what you feel good about doing.

[september1967.livejournal.com]

Yes, being condescended to is something I have a thick skin for too.

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

You feel you're being condescended to?

[september1967.livejournal.com]

Yes I think I have been quite a number of times today.

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I wouldn't spend this much time talking to you if my intent were to insult or belittle you, I promise. I'm trying to reach some areas of shared understanding, here, because I think I know where you're coming from but it hasn't always been easy for me to tell and I don't want to assume wrong. And you've felt misunderstood and maybe even disrespected throughout these discussions, and I'd like to help with that. But, again, I'm just one person expressing her opinions. I'm really not trying to belittle you.

[september1967.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the discussion. I wouldn't respond to you if I didn't get something from it.