Every year I get here and wonder what the hell it's all about. But as the sun sets you realise mostly it's about not knowing. pic.twitter.com/haztuIsMsF
— Peter Lorimer (@pighilltweets) January 14, 2017"Criticism is as inevitable as breathing," wrote TS Eliot, "and we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it ..."
Michael Egan belongs to a rare and special group of people: he bought our book. Even rarer, he read it twice ...
He knew such feelings were neurotic, dangerous even, but he was not unduly worried, sensing that it was better to indulge them than to try and eliminate them altogether. After all, everyone has fantasies. In the one life there are many lives. Alternative lives. Some are lived and others imagined. That is the absurdity of biographies, he would say, of novels. They never take account of the alternative lives casting their shadows over us as we move slowly, as though in a dream, from birth to maturity to death.
He knew such feelings were neurotic, dangerous even, but he was not unduly worried, sensing that it was better to indulge them than to try and eliminate them altogether. After all, everyone has fantasies. In the one life there are many lives. Alternative lives. Some are lived and others imagined. That is the absurdity of biographies, he would say, of novels. They never take account of the alternative lives casting their shadows over us as we move slowly, as though in a dream, from birth to maturity to death.
“There is an element, in any good novel, of something that cannot be taken away without dissolving the whole book. If you remove everything else, that’s what remains. But what that core quality is, is hard to say. You can talk about it in negative terms. It’s not that the novel is so terribly exciting from a psychological point of view. It’s not that it has such unusually interesting or original insights into structures of contemporary society. It’s not that it’s so fascinating to get to know the characters, however eccentric or unique or typical. It is something else entirely, and it’s that insoluble quality that has to be there. That’s really all I can say.”
– Dag Solstad
What attracts the writer, what moves the artist, is not directly the work; it is the search, the impulse that leads to it, the approach of what makes the work possible: art, literature, and what these two words conceal ...
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Skills mismatch set to worsen: report Issues include literacy, numeracy, problem-solving
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Breaking Bread Cabinet Magazine
Research increasingly reveals the need for law students and new lawyers to possess a broad range of characteristics, skills, and professional competencies in order to succeed. Moreover, employers indicate that new lawyers’ ability to navigate a professional environment is far more important than their legal skills.
Two constructs borrowed from the social sciences—grit and growth mindset—serve as promising mechanisms for students to develop these necessary characteristics and professional competencies. While few studies have applied these concepts directly to legal education and practice, generalized research demonstrates they are directly correlated with success and well-being.
Calculating the True Value of A Library that is Free - Internet Archive Blogs: “The Internet Archive, which runs the project Open Library,
is working to create a vast network of online book lending in order to
make all books accessible to all people. Open Library cares about the
input of its readers. As Open librarian and Internet Archive Software
Engineer Mek Karpeles
describes, “Open Library’s theory is that readers deserve a say in
what’s on their bookshelves,” which is why he and his team have created a
new Book Sponsorship
feature.A blue box on the book page lets you know that this is a book
you can sponsor. With your donation, we will buy the book, digitize it,
store it, and make the ebook available for borrowing–first by you.
Founded on the idea that a library ought to have books that “reflect [a]
community’s needs and values,” Book Sponsorship allows any of the more
than two and a half-million users of Open Library to #saveabook.
This is a natural follow-up to the long standing “Want to Read”
functionality whereby a reader can indicate a book is missing from the
Archive that they wish to read…”'
Megan Bess (UIC John Marshall), Grit, Growth Mindset, and the Path to Successful Lawyering:
Research
increasingly reveals the need for law students and new lawyers to
possess a broad range of characteristics, skills, and professional
competencies in order to succeed. Moreover, employers indicate that new
lawyers’ ability to navigate a professional environment is far more
important than their legal skills.
Two
constructs borrowed from the social sciences—grit and growth
mindset—serve as promising mechanisms for students to develop these
necessary characteristics and professional competencies. While few
studies have applied these concepts directly to legal education and
practice, generalized research demonstrates they are directly correlated
with success and well-being.
Private Prisons in the United States - The Sentencing Project – “Twenty-eight states and the federal government incarcerated 121,718 people in private prisons in 2017, representing 8.2% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private facilities has increased 39%, according to data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and The Sentencing Project and presented in our new Fact Sheet. States show significant variation in their use of private prisons. For the first time, one state, New Mexico, housed a majority of its prison population in private facilities. But, 22 states do not employ any for-profit
Stuart Russell on losing control of AIFinancial TimesAssange in Court Craig Murray. Important as well as deeply troubling.
Incredible An Italian Journalist presented Mike Pompeo packet of dog food , requesting him to consume it thrice a day , so that US could become sincere & faithful to others
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