Notification/Permission/Asking for Forgiveness...
I have been at this for a couple of days now and really ought to get in contact with Geof Huth at One Million Footnotes and let him know what I'm up to/ask permission to use his writing/say sorry for stealing from him. It is no small worry that he may not wish to be involved and that I would have to look for another footnoter/one-line author to continue with the project.
I was really attracted to OMF through its non-linear story-telling and how the protagonist, 'he', seems to be real (Geof himself?), fictional and, at times, both. There is the element of voyeurism, inherent in the blogging/on-line journal medium, that can be made limitless through a fictional expansion on the truth.
posted by Bayntonr at 11:39
1 Comments:
4thra,
Apparently, I haven't checked out this blog of yours yet. I really enjoy this part of your project--the documentation--which is a concept central to my profession (archivist).
And you have absolutely captured my point in "One Million Footnotes." The "he" is a character in a story we don't quite see, as are "she" and "their daughter" and "their son." And these are all the members of my family. So the story mimics, to some degree, our life; and to some degree not.
Good luck with this project, and keep it up!
Geof
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