publishing for the historical record

[joculum]

Am feeling melancholy about the various LiveJournals likely to disappear in the not-so-foreseeable future, some of which (not just mine) were designed to possess a degree of permanence. I should think the desirable outcome would be a version of public posts in which all the irrelevant or no longer relevant posts would be reset to private and the remainder produced as a downloadable e-book and/or print version. For now, I have simply moved them to Dreamwidth for later editing.

I have concluded that I am not going to produce the definitive explanation of our historical moment (or even my confused version of same) and have now restricted myself to topical posts on counterforces.blogspot.com and joculum.dreamwidth.org, and was thinking of writing some notations about such topics as St-John Perse's poems fifty years later, and what is and is not relevant in what has lately been termed The Age of Earthquakes (regarding which, see my review essay on Counterforces), but these proposed LiveJournal posts have now been consigned to the realm of might-have-beens.