Dangerous animal

A salad of philosophers, Descartes' meditations, sitting in front of the fire reflecting on the nature of his own existence, Plato's large and dangerous animal that only someone with the vision to see what really is and trained to do so can tame and Montaigne - an early blogger - his idea that by writing down his own thoughts he in some way reflected the human condition. Hmmmm.
Well, here's what I think, the blog IS a dangerous animal because you have to know the nature of it. It isn't like e-mail or a diary where you can say secret private things, give outrageous opinions about people and events, it is more like Montaigne's 'Essais' where he knew it was going to be published. Of course de Montaigne used the interesting trick of writing in really convoluted Renaissance French so that it was difficult to understand.
Asleep yet? Cool, me too, I'm going to have to get way better at this.