just at the start of something

Yesterday, after passing a note announcing a birthday written in chalk in some stranger’s driveway, I started thinking about the concept of (written) private conversation in public spaces. I thought about this place (these places), which adds the extra element of the anonymous.

This morning, I noticed dvd’s comment to mrtn @ comovedy.com about the evolution of comment systems standing in for previously held email conversation. private public discourse.

Just happened to be reading Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University” this morning and noted the following:
“Barthes (1974), for example, has argued that the moment of writing where private goals and plans become subject to public language, is the moment when the writer becomes subject to a language he can neither command nor control.”