Sally anonymous

She is sortof like a ghost actually. No photos, nothing online, never spotted around town...I oculd almost believe I had imagined her, like Nabokov's heroine who once inspired me, do any of our friends and lovers really exist, or are they all just figments of our own fantasies?

Audience

In the exchange view of human relationships people give as part of the expectation that they will recieve in kind. This is a sort-of social contract meets market-place economics social theory, (which I always found absurdly reductionist), but the question it brings to mind is what does one give in exchange for getting an audience, how does one convince others to give them attention, how does the star/fan dynamic begin? But I'm not talking about media stars, I'm talking about everyday stars in their own melo-dramas, joke making, poetry. How do you convince your friends to read your writing, and what do you offer them in return? Every artist needs an audience, but audiences for writers are possibly the hardest to come by and yet necessary for the writer to fully practice their art. Of course this blog is just a vain attempt to drum up audience from the seemingly infinite pool of humanity floating along on the wires of the web. And yet it hasn't worked, is there anybody out there?? Well, yes, but not for you. To write in isolation is like doing anything in isolation, for human beings, the most social animal on the planet it just doesn't work. Whether you're a misanthrope, a deviant, a loner, or any other derivative, everybidy needs and audience. And without one, the art just stops