DQs in the Wild and DQs @pmarca style
[ by Charles Cameron — a mini-historical recap on the two topics named in the title ]
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Without exhaustive checking, I think I first started posting DoubleQuotes as such, on a site Garsett Larosse generously provided, on May 1st, 2004. I described them thus:
DoubleQuotes consist of two quotes (or images), juxtaposed. They are intended to work in a way that I learned from haiku: as thoughts dropped into the mind-pond, not so much for their own sakes as for their concentric ripples and the interference patterns between them.
It looks as though the first DQ I posted there was a couple of weeks later, on May 17th, and was titled Milk of Justice:
I keep hoping I’ll find a way to catch Kristof‘s attention and get him to tell me his source for the Iranian “breasts of justice” story.
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DQs in the Wild:
I think I introduced the idea that there were “DQs in the Wild” in this post with that title, in which I define the genre as that of “found objects as they call them in the art world, relating directly to my DoubleQuotes format”.
Some examples:
and:
I have to say spotting these examples, together with the various friendships most of them have sprung from, has been one of the delights of my on;line life these last few years.
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DQs, Marc Andreessen and Adam Elkus:
Here’s my post a while back responding to an exchange between Marc and Adam in which Adam mentioned my DoubleQuotes:
— along with some other, related posts:
— those last two including DQs in which Andreessen is one of those quoted — and:
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And that concludes this series of posts. Until the thought-clock rolls around to the same time in a new day, and this stuff begins all over again.