Saturday, April 02, 2022

This is the most Orwellian version of society I've ever lived in

Cognac - with J & F - Konak Turkish kitchen



For Kafka, hypochondria was more than a state of mind. It gave meaning to his entire world entire world  


NBA superstar Lebron James reveals he drinks ‘wine or Tequila every night.’


SCIENCE:  NASA confirms more than 5,000 planets outside the solar system.


WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Brain implant allows patient with advanced ALS to communicate.



Humans Can Only Experience Time In One Direction

Luckily, writing is different: "In poetry and in prose, time can warp, twist, and buckle." - The Atlantic Luckily, writing is different: "In poetry and in prose, time can warp, twist, and buckle." - The Atlantic


The Authors Of Books Banned From Schools, Or Entire Countries, Speak Out

Art Spiegelman: "This is the most Orwellian version of society I've ever lived in."  Margaret Atwood: "They're playing woke snowflakery back."  Hamid Ismailov: "I'm the most widely published Uzbek, yet nobody can mention my books. It's a total ban of my name, of activity, of books, of existence." - The Guardian

Lying Is Its Own Form of Storytelling

In literature, nothing is as fascinating or destabilizing as deception: Your weekly guide to the best in books


No one can make a story sing quite like a liar. Spinning falsehoods is its own kind of storytelling, and when it happens within a book’s plot, it can be fascinating, destabilizing, or both. That’s true regardless of whether a character or a narrator means to be malicious. After all, lying is ubiquitous: “We all have a tendency to fictionalize, whether we realize it or not,” Maura Kelly writes. Drawing on the work of Jonathan Gottschall, Kelly says that we tweak our memories and anecdotes to pull meaning out of chaos.


Author NoViolet Bulawayo On The Power Of Literature, And The Responsibility Of A Writer

The murder of George Floyd, and the protests, prompted her to rethink her own responsibilities. She says, "There are generations of freedom fighters who have been doing this work without the internet, without being spotlighted." - The Guardian 

The Night the Oscars Lost Control

Scientists Are Trying To Shape Dreams. Creepy? Or…

The Dormio enables a limited shaping of the images that appear during sleep’s first stage. Yet this is enough to give bite to the question, to render it slightly less abstract. Why would I want to shape my dreams? What kinds of things can you do with dreams? - Harper's

LitHub – Jude Stewart Breaks Down the Chemical Reactions Behind Olfactory Bibliomania…”This is an intimate smell that’s not necessarily miniature. You can smell a single old book, riffle through its pages rapidly and let your nose bask in the scented breeze. But just as often you encounter this smell as a solid wall in a used bookstore or library. Writ large like this, old books smell like a constructed forest: ancient and druidical, exhaling to make their own atmosphere, a forgotten primordial home.The smell of old books stems from their slow chemical decomposition. Books are largely paper, and paper is largely plants. But the materials from which books are made have shifted over the centuries—and those shifts, in turn, have influenced how different generations of books smell. Before 1845, paper in books was manufactured from cotton and linen rags…”

 

A group of bored husbands team up to offer each other some company while their wives shop at Target in this hilarious parody.

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