What happened in class...

Those Letters are insane, by this I mean that the person writing them is so obsessed that they can hardly breathe and will surely soon explode with the weight of their own internal turmoil, utter paradox.
The writer of the letters is torn by the chosen precursor to any and all correspondence between himself and this person they don't know. This dilemma has boiled down to a conflict of logic or.. process, formal acknowledgement of questions posed. But the redundancy of it build until it is eventually impossible to know. Unless both of them were to bring their copies of sent and received letters together w/ dates and piece together what happened there is no other way to decipher what is really going on. Its all too much.

Authority and authorship become a little more interesting on Friday when we discussed their relationship. We create a world when we write, that world is for its creator and its creator alone to determine the rules, laws, and term of existence within it. It tells us a little about who the person it.
There is a lot of historical culture which rebels against authority, some even hate it in any form with a passion. But what is authority in the terms of being an author? An authority figure creates and enforces the laws of the world we live in. This person can either encourage or manipulate the terms of our existence.
But when we read something unless we are being required to read it by a teacher or work we are agreeing to accept the author as the authority. For the purposes of what we have to gain we allow someone to create the laws of existence within their world.. now a part of our world.
When we are being forced to read something is when the rebellious part comes in surely.

I suppose this is much a question to the professor Tony Prichard himself but I would like to discuss what I think could be the answer. Why does he choose to have 4 browsers on his computer? and for the most part he utilizes them. In class he had at least two if not three of them open. I do not think it is simply a fact the functionality of each with whatever he may be using it to browse, for surely one could be effectively and efficiently used to serve all intensive purposes. The changing back and forth is certainly an interruption. It puzzled me enough to say something about it aloud. So maybe my interpretation of it is the greatest interruption of all but lets stay with the browsers. Does he like the chaos? the disorganization? or are the multiple browsers his idea of organization itself. Knowing Tony as I believe I do I'd be inclined to believe he just got a little bit of fun out of the nonsense of it.

Lastly I want to talk about the class A interruption that was going on the entire time. The plurking on the whiteboard was ridiculous. First of all I was rather .. not taken aback, but surprised and a little wonder-struck when I was chatting with Tony on google wave and he responded in plurk format. By that of course I mean "nanotext" (says, feels, hopes etc.) and then the statement that comes next. I would never dream of using plurk format outside of the world of plurking. Outside of plurk is where we are supposed to be using a language and a format that has been developed over thousands of years to be the best that it can be. Why fuck with it now? Perhaps people are so bored with normal speech that they are straying from it to this new and exciting thing, but that wouldn't explain tony's use of it.
But in the way in which it happened, maybe it was a product of the fact that there were many students in class, including myself which did not have laptops and thus decided to start our own plurk. And then Kye (having a laptop) decided to erase it, 'shame on our pathetic imitation of plurk'. Not really of course but what if? What if everyone referred to themselves in third person and spoke in plurk format all the time. Life would be a series of declarative statements. We would probably know a ton more about what is on someones mind at random moments. Truly it was a once in a lifetime phenomenon and I wonder if theres any chance it will happen again for it was truly an interruption to be remembered.