A historical reminder that the style bloggers are most derided for, i.e. boring detailed accounts of their everyday lives, pets and people we don’t know and care even less, was not unfamiliar to Samuel Pepys, the history’s most famous diarist. From 1660 to 1669, this English Member of Parliament kept a detailed diary, which was published posthumously. Admittedly, his fame comes from providing a fascinating eyewitness account of the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. But there are passages that are rather uninteresting. Here’s one example from July of 1663:
Up betimes to my office, and there all the morning doing business, at noon to the Change, and there met with several people, among others Captain Cox, and with him to a Coffee [House], and drank with him and some other merchants. Good discourse. Thence home and to dinner, and, after a little alone at my viol, to the office, where we sat all the afternoon, and so rose at the evening, and then home to supper and to bed, after a little musique.
So Samuel had plenty of time to write his ‘offline’ diary and bloggers should be cut some slack. You never know, enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare. Allegedly…
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