The commentary questioned basic economic policies and the China growth model: "This choking, dirty and poisonous air forces the Chinese to rethink the widespread, messy development model".
Her own words are inserted as commentary, question, counterpoint, breaking open the Freudian text, usurping its privileges, revealing its wounds.
The company explained that it had pulled Replies amid all the changes as Tumblr had grown to have a number of overlapping message-like systems, including Asks (where users can Ask a question), Fan Mail, reblogging with commentary, question posts, and Replies.
Crucially, it also allows their followers to give feedback, giving their approval, commentary or questions in real time.
For those lucky enough to be able to fight their way through the technical glitches, they were treated to a stream of Obama commentary on questions from the future of the web itself, to space travel and to the recipe of the newly brewed White House beer.
She said in the interview that she had not wanted to step out so soon but felt forced to do so by commentary that questioned whether there was a real person behind the book.
But the more I worked on the text, read around it and played with my people, the more I could recognise how complicated it actually is: it's a commentary, a question, a cautionary tale.
