Literary Investigations

Some of the most frequent visitors to my ethereal little villa consider themselves to be literary bloggers in one guise or another.  Some are bloggers who write about something they believe to be called...

...literature.  Others are bloggers who write their blogs and blog-pamphlets in what they consider to be a literary style.

Most visitors, however, are a diverse assortment of blogging and non-blogging characters who make no claims whatsoever regarding literary merit and only seek information from excellently enlightened literary sources such as my own blog-pamphlets.  If you are a blogger, what sort do you consider yourself to be?

As you may be aware, I am a frequent investigator of literature, and attempt to observe it in its various material, verbal, musical, mimetic, semiotic and digital presentations.  There are, however, many annoying interruptions and distractions in my daily schedules, meaning that I cannot usually allocate enough time towards the sort of investigations I would prefer.  Perhaps you are similarly afflicted.

There are many persons who have written blogs in the past but who have given up writing them after a short time.  Then there are those who have been writing blogs for many years as well as those who started their blog writing experiences relatively recently.  I am especially interested in blogs written by current residents of Adelaide, not only because Adelaide is where I live but also because I have an interest in local community views of many sorts.

I am also interested in blog collections, some of which are no longer updated.  For example, the Adelaide Index is a listing compiled between 2005 and 2008.  My own blog-pamphleteering only began in 2009.  However, I also maintain some Adelaide blog listings, and they are located in the right hand column of Adelaide Adagia.

For literary blog collections, I have been exploring a few resources today and hope you may find them enlightening.  They are listed here as found within Mr Google's establishment under the search heading of literary bloggers:


The Elegant Variation

The best in literature blogs

Really smart literary blogs

Contemporary literature blogs

Literary blogs

Best literature blogs

Literary Minded

Guardian Books blog


Tomorrow, on the final day of the World Enlightenment Forum, I shall be launching a literary report on the future of global impressiveness.  Only persons who are familiar with the World Economic Forum's reporting of global competitiveness will be permitted to attend.

Copies of my limited-edition report will be available for only five minutes at the end of the launch, the price being determined by weight per ounce and matched to the spot price of gold at the time of purchase.  Methods of payment include Australian dollars in cash or bartering with precious metals.

Another alternative, subject to negotiation, is to sell your literary soul to the highest bidder who happens to be in attendance at the launch.  That person will then bargain with me on your behalf.  Only ten genuine, authorised copies of the report will be in existence from tomorrow onwards, meaning that the value of the document will probably increase exponentially within five hours of initial availability.

Perhaps you are hoping that the value of your own literary output will increase exponentially quite soon.  How do you set a value on your writings?  And how do you assess the value of another person's work?

Well, I think I shall attempt to spend a few quiet hours this evening in my library, even though the weather bureau says there is a chance of a thunderstorm.  Alternatively, I may make my way to my laboratory.