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Thinking about audience

Michel_de_MontaigneStill thinking about journaling, public and private, and came across this:

“Things I would not tell anyone, I tell the public.”

~ Michel de Montaigne

(screenshot image, Wikipedia)

This was written by bscribe. Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006, at 12:36 pm. Filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

5 Comments

  1. cass wrote:

    I love the people you introduce me to in this blog. I’d never met de Montaigne - the inventor of the essay, a skeptic and a humanist - thanks for the introduction.

    Friday, July 7, 2006 at 12:45 pm | Permalink
  2. Paul wrote:

    Secrets are merely tomorrow’s news. :)

    Saturday, July 8, 2006 at 5:53 am | Permalink
  3. Jason wrote:

    What was it that Jorge Louis Borges wrote about if all things were known about all men?

    Can’t recall exactly, so here is my take:

    I think we would be amazed how many secret thoughts, hopes, shames, pain, and dreams we, all of us, share in common.

    Saturday, July 8, 2006 at 4:40 pm | Permalink
  4. Pam wrote:

    How perfectly true!

    Sunday, July 9, 2006 at 3:38 pm | Permalink
  5. bscribe wrote:

    Thanks for the comments, all. I plan to write more about this in the future — I’m really interested in what we find ourselves sharing in all the different venues available to us, blogs, journals, stories, etc — how we may or may not be being generous with the sharing of ourselves (and which selves?) all to what effect.

    Monday, July 10, 2006 at 2:43 pm | Permalink