Every Day the Same Dream

[ED: Nick once told me that Capricorns are prone to intense bouts of purging. I don’t typically give astrologically-based proclamations much weight, but I’ve been thinking about his often of late. As an editor, I feel more and more that 2TW has reached an end. That I’ve said all I had in me to say, referenced all I could reference, gotten from it what I could.

I also can't shake the feeling I'm only contributing to the endless glut of sound and vision that is the internet. I wonder how many posts on other blogs I've actually read in the last six months, versus how many I've saved to read later. Later never comes. I wonder if any of us are truly reading and learning from each other, or if we're all just treading water.  

I read posts alarmingly similar to this one from writers I respect often, and know that “I’m not sure what comes next” and “I need to step back and reassess my priorities” more often mean the end of a project, a way to gracefully bow out. 

I’m not sure what comes next. I need to step back and reassess my priorities.  BRB.]

Comments

[Ronnie]

A shame. I just discovered the blog. Oh well, there's always the archives. Good luck with whatever's next.

[Grant]

I look at lots of blogs, not just interiors but I am as keen as the next person for interiors porn, but yours is the only one that I read with attention, that is doing everything right, that is not just pretty pictures but really engages with what it means to live inside, alongside things. Some of the things that set you apart: referencing every line you quote, every image you republish, so that readers realise that the seamless internet actually has been staple-bound from other peoples work, that reading Psychic Soviet is a necessary act and it is also a beautiful book, that you make value judgements and have opinions ... By all means finish your posts, not everything has to last forever, but as someone who has read from the early days and always known when I clicked on the bookmark for 2thewalls that I would see something new or something I have loved confirmed as great by your attention, or surprised by your current obsession, please know that what you have done is important and appreciated by people around the world. Where else will I go for an homage/analysis of Ferdinando Scarfiotti? I am sure you know by the attentions of other great people that what you do is the best the internet has to offer but if not the above.

[Nick]

That last comment is 1. spot-on and 2. worth more than all the clucking "LOVE!" affirmations on zee Internet combined.

Purge your wardrobe, purge your apartment, but purge this blog and I'll come at you with the force of 20 you-know-who's (pancho pouch).