I love a great quote, don’t you? The best quotes make you think. And they often articulate much clearer, what you want to say. Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher born in 544 b.c. said, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”1 In plain English, that means that you cannot step into the same river twice because you are changing and the river is changing. However, there is a deeper meaning to the quote for those who ever manager to finish reading Cold river
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Art enriches life and helps engage us with mortality. And so Robert McCrum, after a stroke and a fall, began to catalog his inventory of Dissolution
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This book, Good Reader, though a balm to you,
shames its creator and should go unread.
Although he spoke as a living man, he was(or should have been, for destiny’s sake) dead
The ancient Greeks had color words for “pansy-like” and “wine-like,” but never sea or sky blue. Can we understand their descriptions if we can’t see as they did? color words
This has been making the rounds in recent days, and the 'infographic' at Global English Editing, The Most Iconic Books Set in 150 Countries Around the World, is closer to hit than miss than most of these kinds of exercises.
'Set in' doesn't necessarily mean 'from', so some of these aren't local; a bit of non figures in along with the fiction: there are some very strange choices (Beowulf is the best they could come up with for Denmark ? The Bridge Over the River Kwaifor Thailand ?); and quite a few countries are ignored (including a whole swathe of Africa, from Mauritania to Niger, Eritrea, and Djibouti (come on, Abdourahman A. Waberi'sTransit is surely the obvious choice)). Still, you could -- and generally do, with these sort of internet list -- do a lot worse.
As "three titles of contemporary Slovak fiction are set to be launched on the Anglophone book market" just now, Eva Andrejčáková reports on How to sell Slovak books to English readers in The Slovak Spectator.
Apparently:
Naked I slid down the rim into the cold water. While my body sang at the delicious knowledge of what it was to swim I wept again for lost memories
Not to be confused with Ghana (which it occasionally is), Guyana literally translates to ‘Land of Many Waters’. Which helps explain Australian photographer Matthew Dunne's latest photo series.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Sydney crime novelist Megan Goldin will be appearing at this year’s BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival. What is this thing called Domestic Noir?
Inaugural Sydney MEdia Dradon Crime Writing Festival
A Pilsner beer cannot continue to be a beer drink over time, unless it’s in constant movement. Fire can’t remain fire unless it’s inconstant movement. A river can’t remain a river, unless it’s water continues to flow. Or as Heraclitus says:
"Changing, it rests...
"On those who enter the same rivers, ever different waters flow– and souls are exhaled from the moist things"
"We step and do not step into the same rivers, we are and we are not"
In the first fragment, Heraclitus suggests that we do step into the same rivers, even though the water in these rivers changes. The second fragment raises interpretative problems of its own, but here too Heraclitus speaks of the same rivers.
"The world, the same for all, neither any god nor any man made; but it was always and is and will be, fire ever-living, kindling in measures and being extinguished in measures"
Fire is clearly very volatile and is in a constant state of change, but nonetheless Heraclitus is suggesting here, it doesn’t change in respect of being fire. In fact, Heraclitus was reported by Theophrastus as suggesting that the change that an object undergoes in one respect can account for its stability in another respect:
"Things which have this movement by nature are preserved and staytogether because of it– if indeed, as Heraclitus says, the barley-drink separates if it is not moving" (Theophrastus, On Vertigo 9).
The world is an unjust place where the good go bad from never being rewarded, where the truly wicked are very rarely punished and where most folk zigzag between the two extremes, neither saints nor demons, tacking between heartache and joy, their fingers crossed, knocking on wood. Every person split in two, each with a fault around which good and evil spin....
We were on the track that splits the Great Salt Lake exactly in two. Because of the railroad ballast, the lake is divided in half, and the composition of the water isn’t the same in both halves. The northern side is full of wine-red algae, but on the southern side it’s green. The clouds were perfectly mirrored on the surface and took on the colours of the lake. The train rolled along slowly. The air was warm and soft. There was no sound; it was as if the universe had come to a standstill. Right then, I had the feeling that I would never again be hungry or cold or in pain or afraid.Bathroom quote
shames its creator and should go unread.
Although he spoke as a living man, he was(or should have been, for destiny’s sake) dead
The ancient Greeks had color words for “pansy-like” and “wine-like,” but never sea or sky blue. Can we understand their descriptions if we can’t see as they did? color words
Caging Skies
Turning a novel into a script is tricky -there have been some spectacular failures on screen and on stage. But the team behind a stage version of Christine Leunans' Second World War novel Caging Skies is confident they've made it work. So's the author. Lynn Freeman speaks to the writer of the stage play Desiree Gezentsvey and to Christine Leunans.
This has been making the rounds in recent days, and the 'infographic' at Global English Editing, The Most Iconic Books Set in 150 Countries Around the World, is closer to hit than miss than most of these kinds of exercises.
'Set in' doesn't necessarily mean 'from', so some of these aren't local; a bit of non figures in along with the fiction: there are some very strange choices (Beowulf is the best they could come up with for Denmark ? The Bridge Over the River Kwaifor Thailand ?); and quite a few countries are ignored (including a whole swathe of Africa, from Mauritania to Niger, Eritrea, and Djibouti (come on, Abdourahman A. Waberi'sTransit is surely the obvious choice)). Still, you could -- and generally do, with these sort of internet list -- do a lot worse.
As "three titles of contemporary Slovak fiction are set to be launched on the Anglophone book market" just now, Eva Andrejčáková reports on How to sell Slovak books to English readers in The Slovak Spectator.
Apparently:
The main problem remains the same as it has been in the past -- Slovak literature is a big unknown in the UK and does not have the supporting pillars as Czech literature does in the tradition of Hašek, Hrabal, or Kundera.
Naked I slid down the rim into the cold water. While my body sang at the delicious knowledge of what it was to swim I wept again for lost memories
Not to be confused with Ghana (which it occasionally is), Guyana literally translates to ‘Land of Many Waters’. Which helps explain Australian photographer Matthew Dunne's latest photo series.
PHOTOGRAPHY: THE LAND OF MANY WATERS
New: a Sydney Crime Writers’ Festival!
At last, Sydney is to have its own Crime Writers Festival, called BAD. There's been a need for this for years - the Sydney Writers Festival does a fine job, but crime can only ever be a small part of what it does. Meanwhile, the audience for crime books - fiction and non-fiction - has been booming.
Inaugural Sydney MEdia Dradon Crime Writing Festival
