"When a poem was best of all
Better even than a well-aimed ball"
— Trying to be bohemian ...
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Career Corner. Dealing with chatty colleagues (Caleb Newquist, Going Concern). When feigning death isn’t enough.
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This month marks the arrival in English of the fourth volume of “My
Struggle,” an autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard that’s made the
author a celebrity in his native Norway. For literary types, this is either
cause for celebration or the latest instance in what’s become an annual ritual
of eye-rolling. (Two more volumes are forthcoming.) For those of the latter
persuasion, “My Struggle” represents a puzzling abandonment of artful prose in
favor of a pile-on of bland detail about growing up, getting married, writing
and reckoning with mortality.
Original Fake: Nothing New Under the Sun? World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – “Every April 26 we
celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to promote discussion of the role of
intellectual property in encouraging innovation and creativity… WIPO is the global forum for intellectual
property services, policy, information and cooperation. We are a
self-funding agency of the United Nations, with
188 member states. Our mission is to lead the development of a balanced and
effective international intellectual property (IP) system that enables
innovation and creativity for the benefit of all. Our mandate, governing bodies
and procedures are set out in the WIPO Convention, which established WIPO in
1967.”
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