'survival of the book' just (via a tertiary reference) turned us on to 'the second pass,' where, in the truest spirit of finding the end of the internet at work, i abandoned my review of neglected 'sotb' posts and started tracking back through posts at the site i linked to from it.
i wasn't able to find the "spirited reviews of older books" mentioned in the nathan ihara article that was mentioned at 'sotb,' but i did come across a blog post on that laura miller essay on the changing of the literary gatekeepers that we discussed here at the end of june. 'the second pass' beat us to the discussion (for shame, i know), and twists the dagger by opening with the author's own admission of being "a few days late" (plus the author seems to have had a varied and exciting career).
read the post if you're interested in the topic. it does well in addressing some of the arguments made against miller's thesis in the comments of her original article. otherwise, waste your time ordering me a pair of those quote unquote bookends. we bring it up here only to remind everyone again of just how germane it is to be 'looking good in pants.' no boasting, though. after all, we were dead center average as far as the curve was drawn on this particular discussion.
for the time being, i'm claiming the word "germanity" in the name of this blog. real dictionaries refuted that one too. it wasn't just blogger this time. but i prefer it because of our relation to le chancelier allemand. and there's really no point arguing with french diplomacy.
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