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“Depth.” That is the single word sentence that so flatteringly opens that author’s review of this website. However, hidden deep within that depth and ensuing description, so deep in fact that we must listen hard in order to expose it, lies something just as spectacular if not more so spectacular because of its veil: the secret depth of the reviewer. That esoteric review, which on one hand told the incoming readers of my blog what they could expect once they came here, told the author of my blog what I couldn’t have known so easily about the author of that blog.
He goes on to say that “It is what I most enjoy about the blogs I read.” That is our secret entrance. Care to follow? “Depth both in content and quality of writing is what appeals most to me when I am reading a blog. The kind of content depth that forces you to pay attention when you a read a blog post to make sure you don’t miss the point. The kind of writing depth that displays a nuanced command of the English language that allows one to read a blog post twice and still feel a sense of freshness the second time around.”
Did you follow it? Our secret entrance was the early mention not about what that author most enjoys about blogs, but about what that author most enjoys about the blogs he reads. That is an author who only reads the good stuff. What follows is an even greater irony. He goes on to mention the specifics of what he likes in writing, and goes about telling us that by using that same kind of writing. The review, let alone the reviewed, was, in my opinion, of a kind of depth that forced me to pay attention so I wouldn’t miss anything, and itself commanded the English language with a displayed nuance that allowed me to read the review twice, each time feeling a sense of freshness, still.
Now how kick-ass is that?
If any readers of mine are ever looking for someone serious from whom to learn about investing blogs, books and more, I’m glad to show you where to look. Go ask Steven at the Value Blog Review.
Congratulations! Speaking of “commanding” and “English language,” the most attention-commanding word in any language is your own name. Positive remarks are good but, remember, you were already good before the review.
For perspective, imagine what your reaction would be if his words were just as “deep” and “commanding” but they were negative…
Keep up the good work…
Financial Philosopher,
Thank you for the congratulations.
I’m going to need your help here: I’m having difficulty associating your analogy between what one’s name means, and how the use of that name cannot change the one whose name was used, with what I’m drawing as your conclusion.
In the opening sense, you seem to be reminding me that a review of my work doesn’t change my work. I think I can accept that. However, then you offer me something for perspective: To imagine my reaction had the review been bad.
In that sense, you’re seeing (correctly) into my own head: you seem to recognize, just as I do, that I would not have written a post about a review I received, in the same way as I wrote this one, had it been a bad one. Or, you might be saying that my perception of his review, and thus the reviewer, was skewed in favor of them because it was about me.
So can a conclusion be drawn from this? Perhaps you mean something like: “Write the truth for the truth itself.” If that is the case, then after only an initial thought here, I have to admit that that is what I thought I was doing.
Keep up the good posts…