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it conjures an image of beauty as a virtual blogosphere seamstress weaving her way throughout the ether, bringing everyone together.

i would venture a guess that Francois would not appreciate the simile, however, since i could not think of a masculine version as lovely.

Why not?

I like the metaphor of a blog DJ (Francois used a similar metaphor to a different purpose on my blog), cutting, splicing, and sampling a group of diverse blogs, making his "own" blog within the comments and trackbacks where we find him.

Liz - good question, and it seems more a therapy issue than a topic for commenting. i'll have to process it some more, though it could be too that i was just lazy. =P

And i especially love the DJ metaphor, Chuck, being a DJ myself and appreciating the recognition that DJs do in fact create something animate from the inanimate.

How could I resist offering one possible reply to Elouise's query as to where I might be going with a little hint to where I have been?

See Crooked Timber comment on the close reading of a blog entry by Brian Weatherson entitle "Style Police"
http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/000577.html

And in the spirit of close reading...
Liz's "why not?" is lovely in its dual appeal: why couldn't Jay think of another simile, why would Francois not appreciate the simile?

Close reading is an exercise in appreciative translation. To stress the seam of Jay's extended simile: [it] the personfication of [beauty] -- the lower case democratic version of the quotidian ideal -- [as a virtual]* [blogosphere seamstress weaving her] tipsy [way] to the doors of spinners [throughout the ether bringing] every one an [everyone] [together].

If imagining Gertrude Stein as the mother of all animators doing a rewrite on Jay's prose to come up with that mind bending "every one an everyone together" is simple, then gender bending is a cinch. :)

Thanks Elouise for hosting a sharable stage. I feel appreciated for being appreciative.

* Virtual understood in the sense that "the virtual is the translation between the translated (source) and the translating (target)" (See http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm)

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