tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8573326257099593047..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: On a Book Blog Entitled A Commonplace Blog – remembering D. G. MyersAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-5021432402484778292014-10-01T23:31:43.047-05:002014-10-01T23:31:43.047-05:00Séamus, thank you.Séamus, thank you.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-32897394777787082322014-10-01T18:24:32.227-05:002014-10-01T18:24:32.227-05:00Beautiful eulogy Tom, and one that has had me ferr...Beautiful eulogy Tom, and one that has had me ferreting around in the none too commonplace blog.Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-5556125126568087822014-10-01T16:50:21.826-05:002014-10-01T16:50:21.826-05:00Now that is nice to see - thanks! I have never in...Now that is nice to see - thanks! I have never in my life gotten the hang of a site with a message board structure, but The Fictional Woods is full of interesting things.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-88110428578197273022014-10-01T15:57:04.006-05:002014-10-01T15:57:04.006-05:00Since you're adding some new links, Roger rece...Since you're adding some new links, Roger recently gave you a shout-out at The Fictional Woods, (http://w11.zetaboards.com/thefictionalwoods/topic/7488914/1/#new), "my favorite book blog, wide ranging, humorous". I'm just sayin'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-64267721159232885642014-10-01T14:54:56.211-05:002014-10-01T14:54:56.211-05:00The "blogroll," what do you - oh that! ...The "blogroll," what do you - oh that! Ha ha, just let me grab the blog duster for a minute. <br /><br />Well, it's not clean, but it's cleaner. There was a point in book blog history when the blogroll was really quite important, but I think it has been superseded a bit. Still, mine covers - now I am not sure what I mean it to cover. I look at, and even read, a lot more book blogs than that.<br /><br />Myers was great fun on Twitter. He could get a conversation going there, a real one, better than about anyone I have seen. Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-88004117835547086722014-10-01T11:35:49.830-05:002014-10-01T11:35:49.830-05:00It's typical for me that I have only discovere...It's typical for me that I have only discovered Myers after his death, through the memorials on this and other blogs. He is someone I wish I could have interacted with in real time, a model citizen in this new neighborhood of book blogs that I'm just beginning to explore. Alas. But what a shining monument of a blog he leaves behind! -- I spent several hours this morning just browsing in his archives. So as someone who is benefitting from his writing even after Myers's death, I thank you for this memorializing post. (And I am exercised to betake me to the other links in your blogroll, that I may discover any other wonderful interlocutors before conversation with them becomes impossible.)Robert Mintohttp://www.robertminto.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-78100439272291618252014-10-01T10:07:32.157-05:002014-10-01T10:07:32.157-05:00In the humanities, certain kinds of expertise requ...In the humanities, certain kinds of expertise require time. Years of reading. We're working on it! Whatever "it" is.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-42081712971686778822014-10-01T06:41:57.880-05:002014-10-01T06:41:57.880-05:00I didn't habitually follow Myers' blog, bu...I didn't habitually follow Myers' blog, but what little I've read showed erudition mixed with sensibility and rigour; in essence he's the book blogger I wish I could be. Such expertise in book blogging is as a rare as Apelles paintings. Hopefully it's not too late to read and appreciate more of his insights. LMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538873868140070018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-38651516958186778772014-09-30T21:57:14.096-05:002014-09-30T21:57:14.096-05:00Fierce, boy was he fierce. Go get 'em, I woul...Fierce, boy was he fierce. Go get 'em, I would shout, even if I got bit, too.<br /><br />Richard, thanks. Myers's tastes in literature are definitely not yours, but they're not really mine, either. But we shared an approach to literature. I had trouble reading him with the skepticism he advised.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-53708009977508415412014-09-30T21:28:34.779-05:002014-09-30T21:28:34.779-05:00I have read several other grateful appreciations o...I have read several other grateful appreciations of Myers in the wake of his passing. I regret that I did not know of his blog until now, and spent time this past weekend exploring some of its many generous and fierce treasures - a humbling and inspiring experience. His final post is one I know I'll turn to again, a light in the darkness for all of us. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-31703332379267893832014-09-30T20:36:03.074-05:002014-09-30T20:36:03.074-05:00I have only a passing familiarity with Myers' ...I have only a passing familiarity with Myers' blog, Tom, but I appreciate this remembrance of him and am sorry that you've lost such an ally of your own blog. Good readers are worth their weight in gold if you'll pardon the cliché, and so I'd like to take a moment to let you know that the sort of criticism and rethinking of conclusions that you say Myers advocated are just some of the things I appreciate in <em>Wuthering Expectations</em> and the comments you leave at my--and others'--blogs. On that note, sorry again for your loss.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-14466644675198323632014-09-30T15:39:37.245-05:002014-09-30T15:39:37.245-05:00Perhaps there is a hint of Myers's religious t...Perhaps there is a hint of Myers's religious tradition there - what is midrash if not an eternally evolving argument; what is literary criticism if not midrash?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-59572081579393702382014-09-30T14:45:17.313-05:002014-09-30T14:45:17.313-05:00"I propose that our common goal should be to ..."I propose that our common goal should be to establish the limits of literature where 'literature' is simply good writing—where 'good' has, by definition, no fixed definition." In other words, an endless argument. I really miss him.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-30625101407268516662014-09-30T10:50:24.017-05:002014-09-30T10:50:24.017-05:00Myers was a good friend of this blog, always stimu...Myers was a good friend of this blog, always stimulating on Twitter and in his other writing, and a fine critic at the micro and macro levels, meaning good reviewing a book at hand and insightful about broader topics, including the thorniest - "What is literature?" and similar questions.<br /><br />Then there is his writing about his illness, and the example he set, but I though other people would do better with that than I could.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-24534054389916811442014-09-30T06:07:14.648-05:002014-09-30T06:07:14.648-05:00Sad news, we often forget there are people behind ...Sad news, we often forget there are people behind book blogs. Very well done tributeMel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-52016487990303938262014-09-30T05:38:11.186-05:002014-09-30T05:38:11.186-05:00When reading A Commonplace Blog, I got the feeling...When reading A Commonplace Blog, I got the feeling that I knew the author personally. I didn't of course, but there persists a sense of loss all the same at his passing.<br /><br />An apt and touching tribute: thank you very much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com