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Today, thanks to all of
you who have chosen at least once to peruse the articles presented in this
blog, the outcome of about six months’ work casts promising figures on the
blog’s stats: 5, 597 views since December 25th, and 997 visitors since I installed ClustrMaps – with its tiny yellow souls
pulsating friendly to announce that someone at that location is reading a post,
looking at the pictures, listening to an audio, or viewing a video and so
tuning in to this virtual extension of a blogger’s mind.
And I cannot but be
happy that you represent an audience in this vast network of data. I’m
imagining that you, people from all walks of life — the general population, as they call us — are, much in the same way
as I am, confronted by unprecedented volumes of information available
electronically, and the mere fact that you stop to consider and share [some of]
my thoughts, concerns, and information is extremely pleasing.
So this is a post which
acknowledges your presence ‘on the other side of the looking glass’, where I do
hope that things are not the wrong way:
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“I’ll tell you all my
ideas about Looking-glass House. First, there’s the room you can see through
the glass – that’s just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the
other way. I can see all of it when I get upon a chair – all but the bit behind
the fireplace. Oh! I do wish I could see that
bit! I want so much to know whether they’ve a fire in winter; you never can tell, you know, unless our fire smokes,
and then smoke comes up in that room too – but that may be only pretence, just
to make it look as if they had a fire. Well then, the books are something like
our books, only the words go the wrong way: I know that, because I’ve held up
one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.”
[Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What
Alice Found There]
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