Comments on: Vonnegut, Blogging, Doing http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:34:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Steve http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/#comment-28163 Steve Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:40:27 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/#comment-28163 "That most succinctly hits the “why” factor for more- in the doing of blogging, I am rewarded, it is my own sense of becoming." Exactly! “That most succinctly hits the “why” factor for more- in the doing of blogging, I am rewarded, it is my own sense of becoming.”

Exactly!

]]> By: Gardner http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/#comment-28158 Gardner Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:12:44 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/#comment-28158 Love the quote about the doing. Hard to live up to that one. But it's crucial. Not so sure about the hot fudge sundae idea, though. Playfulness and seriousness are not opposites--gotta name check my new pal Huizinga on that one. But I do get the drift of what Vonnegut's saying, and I don't want to get all medieval on his rogueishness.... All too true about Harrison Bergeron, yes indeed.... Love the quote about the doing. Hard to live up to that one. But it’s crucial.

Not so sure about the hot fudge sundae idea, though. Playfulness and seriousness are not opposites–gotta name check my new pal Huizinga on that one. But I do get the drift of what Vonnegut’s saying, and I don’t want to get all medieval on his rogueishness….

All too true about Harrison Bergeron, yes indeed….

]]> By: Beth Ritter-Guth http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/#comment-28136 Beth Ritter-Guth Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:02:50 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/vonnegut/#comment-28136 I am a huge fan of Vonnegut. Harrison Bergeron becomes - sadly - more real every day. I am a huge fan of Vonnegut. Harrison Bergeron becomes - sadly - more real every day.

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