Thursday, December 15, 2005
(12:02 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Repeated Stories
I really hate it when I tell someone the same story twice. This is probably because of the really exaggerating ribbing my dad would get whenever he, being a fallible human being, told a story twice. Just tonight, I told a story for the second time to someone I've only known a short while -- on my own score card, a rather inexcusable mistake.It occurred to me: Why not set up a database? Under the entry for every person in my life, I could list the stories I've told. I could set it up so that it beamed a message to my cell phone, giving me a list of all available stories for that person. Once I've told them all to someone, I marry that person.
Then I realized that the blog ruins everything. It's always awkward to meet someone who has been a long-time reader of the blog, because I don't know what to talk about -- it feels like they already know everything. But even worse -- when someone in the biosphere reads the blog without my knowing it. I assume that all blog material is available for use on all biospheric residents with no obvious blog-reading habit, but then I end up repeating myself in such a way that even a database couldn't prevent the error.
But if I were to do the database, the first "story" entry would be for the story about how I hate to repeat stories, because I tell that one to everyone.
