Drinking while writing: Celebrating thinking differently

‘Write drunk. Edit sober.”

The two famous authors and great friends had two very different perspectives when it came to writing and having a drink.

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In the quixotic nature of writing — a craft that gently drives its practitioners mad — lies the reason it matters so much 

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“The Flatterer,” “The Chatterer,” “The Coward.” Theophrastus’ character types, more than 2,000 years old, are readily  Recognisable today  

Conjure up a handful of your most cherished memories. Some will date from childhood. Others will be of decidedly adult happenings.

By Janan Ganesh

Lamentation for a lost summer

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The new rules on what you can say in the office

Mask-shunning Republican congressman tests positive for COVID-19

Congressman Louie Gohmert, who steadfastly refused to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, has tested positive for COVID-19.

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The Art and Science of Thinking Differently

Departments celebrated for ‘thinking differently’ at 2020 Public Sector Innovation Awards

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As part of their NYC Dance Projectand in partnership with Harper’s Bazaar, photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory photographed Misty Copeland, a principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre, recreating scenes from the works of French artist Edgar Degas. Above, Copeland poses as the subject of Degas’ La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (Little Dancer of Fourteen Years) dressed in a $9000 Alexander McQueen dress & corset.

The Harper’s piece vaguely hints at his representation of the ballerinas being “far from sympathetic” but as Julia Fiore wrote in The Sordid Truth behind Degas’s Ballet Dancers, the reality of the Parisian ballet that he was depicting was unsettling.

The Jewish and Christian origins of the rule of law.  Important

Device to predict avocado ripeness: there is no great stagnation

B.B. King once said that Green “has the sweetest tone I ever heard; he was the only one who gave me the cold sweats.”

Jimmy Page (no slouch himself in the British blues guitarist department in his younger days) told an interviewerthat, “Personally, I don’t think you’re going to find a better example of British blues than the original Fleetwood Mac, with Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green.”

Fleetwood Mac’s “Albatross” was the inspiration for the tone of the Beatles’ “Sun King” on Abbey Road.