Link already
Joel constructs meaning from the drivel posted by Steve Gillmor - without links or explanation, there's really no other way to describe it than drivel). I think I know what Gillmor is after with the whole "gesture" thing, but making obscure references and refusing to link to information on said references simply subtracts meaning.
If your goal is to make a point, Steve - sorry, it's not happening.
Comments
Why it seems incomprehensible to you
[] December 23, 2006 16:47:10.493
He's not writing for you.
Incomprehensible is incomprehensible
[d.w.] December 23, 2006 17:26:49.690
Unless you're James Joyce or William Faulkner you can't get away with writing like that.
Heh
[ James Robertson] December 23, 2006 20:01:31.612
Comment by James Robertson
The trouble is, he's not writing for anyone other than a handful of people who know him well - which doesn't bode well for spreading an idea.
Literary Approach
[George Paci] December 25, 2006 11:49:12.836
Did Gillmor really write "the telltale odor of the missing links"? In a pejorative way? With absolutely no irony?
That's it: I'm convinced he's being literary. Not like Faulkner or Joyce, but like Gertrude Stein:
Rose is rose.
Gesture is gesture.
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet tea.
Gesture economy.
See? You don't read it for the sense; just for the sound.