Apologia

That word above is an old-fashioned one, which most readers may not be familiar with. I am not apologizing for anything, just offering an explanation for why I should want to start another blog.

My other, original blog will continue and, I hope, thrive in the months and years to come. This one is not a separate project; I expect my old and faithful readers to visit it in tandem. But I also hope that this one will create a somewhat different image of me, and draw other kinds of readers…

If you ask why, my reasons are manifold:

· The older blog is getting cluttered with too many posts, and very few people have the time/patience to explore it for older posts,
· Despite my intentions (see this essay), it has started sounding rather too solemn, practical, worldly, and I would like readers to find out other facets of my character/interests too,
· To live a full and good life, one must attend to many things. As with money and work and sex and philosophy and music, pure fun and whimsy (of the cerebral kind, it goes without saying – I have no desire to attract your typical mall-hopper, pub-crawler, giggly teenager or party animal) should have some space for itself, and that is one of the themes I wish to attend to here, in the spirit of Carroll’s most famous ‘nonsense’ poem Jabberwocky

… well, there are other reasons, but let that be enough for now.

Oh, one more thing: I shall be delighted to have suggestions by way of comments here, too!

Love you…