Blog Away
I suppose I shouldn’t let it get to me when strangers several blogs and blogbacks away say they think I’m full of myself. It didn’t occur to me that Victoria would take down that particular blog entry - I’m still not sure she did, since I don’t know much about livejournals. Anyway, feel free to put it back up if you did take it down. The damage was already done, anyway. Next time I just won’t click on the comments link, since I know it won’t be pretty.
I probably shouldn’t have been so blunt in my previous post, either. Again, it was the people at a fourth remove who got insulted, and Victoria, despite, or perhaps because of, her misinterpretation, had some interesting things to say.
For instance, she suggested that people use the muse metaphor out of longstanding habit. I’m sure some people talk about the muse without any real internal referent, just because they hear it bandied about so much. Yet that cannot explain the persistence of the muse in general - no one talks about Apollo, though we still have war. Fanfic writers don’t talk about spleen or bile, though these metaphors lived from ancient Greece well into modern times.
I’m getting too apologetic in my old age. My original purpose for this post was just to link the new muses category. (Categories are just another cool feature brought to you by Moveable Type, like comments that don’t slow the page download to a crawl.) Some older musey musings have been included, which make a start towards the musobiography Lori requested.