Reading leads to meeting?
Written biographical and autobiographical material can raise as many questions as it answers, and this is a good thing.
For example, after I wrote an acquaintance that I had Googled her and had learned a lot, she wrote back "now the mystique is gone." But actually, knowledge of these facts X, Y, and Z only made me want to ask her in person "How did you feel about X? What did you like about Y and Z?" etc. Information led to interest, which led to communication.
Might we view the entire human-readable portion of the internet as ultimately an introducer to real people? Going yet further, might we not say that even the goods and services a person provides are ultimately a set-up for that person's interactions with other people? (These ideas relate to my "Nearish" project, which follows from the personal-relationship-as-center-of-life value embraced by the "people of the Book.")
To just be together and to "just live"--is the rest of life a means to this end, or to an end somehow like this?
posted by Liam D. Gray @ 7:43 AM
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