Random text fragments
Here’s another experiment, for no particular reason. The box below displays random paragraphs from Secret Ballet:
You can reload the page to get a new fragment. I seem to be pushing the limits of Blogger. When I do something like this, some things will work, and some things won’t. I can publish this post, but I can’t edit it on Blogger, I have to delete it, edit it on my computer, and repost it.
For some reason I find Secret Ballet fascinating. I keep wanting to read just a little bit more, even though I know the book was assembled from sample sentences in a dictionary. There’s nothing really there.
Is television news any different? News is a business. The stories are composed, packaged, teased and delivered by professional news readers. There is a pretense of substance, the idea that something important actually happened, but on a slow news day, the news business fills the same amount of air time with no substance at all.
Maybe the fascination is that Secret Ballet doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is.