Suspension of Disbelief
Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it the suspension of disbelief -- the willingness of an audience to accept as true the premises of a work of fiction even if they are fantastic or impossible.
Blogging requires a suspension of disbelief as well -- a suspension of disbelief that there will be interest in anything the blogger has to say, or that the blogger will manage to avoid alienating friends, colleagues and strangers with pompous and arrogant pronouncements.
Because I occasionally feel I have something to say, and I am not satisfied doing it solely in the comments areas of other peoples' blogs, I've decided to start my own.
Hopefully I will manage to inform and entertain more than embarrass and alienate. Suspend disbelief for now.
