Giant PDF thoughts

(It didn't really take that long to load.)

The idea of being "uncreative" seems to be more about the process of the work rather than the outcome or understanding, much like everything else we've looked at in this class; it's not so much that the outcome needs to become something specific, but rather that the process to get there is just as important in the 'creative' department. There is a point where Kenneth Goldsmith actually says that (in different wording), and that was really the only part I really understood. The rest made me more confused as to why any author would specifically go for this style of writing rather than just going after something more linear.

As for our second question, the HTML version of soliloquy was annoying at first, but I looked at the PDF second and I was suddenly glad that the webpage is presented in the way it was. The PDF is just one giant block of text that runs on for pages and pages, whereas the HTML allows you to just kind of randomly pick out one thing that was said from the rest, and to literally keep them separate. It's harder to pick out individual lines (or even want to) when you're looking at a giant thing of text, and if you just glaze over the whole thing you don't get the point of it at all. It also, for me, reiterated the fact that this wasn't all one stream of thought - this was many thoughts that were expressed throughout an entire day, in many different situations.