Well it is the season of the witch.. So I am picking up stitches. So it goes. Chasing leads with the writers group and earnestly tracking back a remembered line from a 'Why I Write' books of essays search a few years back. Stuck with me. "I write because I hate. A lot. Hard." And … Continue reading Fluent With Sweat In the Midnite IHOP Booth, Contemplating Tongues Forcing Into My Very Mouth (ReVisiting William Gass on Writing in the Paris Review: “I STILL HATE SCENES UNLESS I MAKE THEM”
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Russia Is Falling Into a Living 1984 Situation – And Some (Many? Even in the Center?) in the Right Wing Supports this Outcome For America
from a guy I just followed on youtube: Dark Dan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HScgaXp7KGw My response: Good vid! When you said Putin put himself in checkmate because their setup of pushing lies even fooled their leadership - and Putin. Trump has the same issue with thinking he is right about everything and wanting to surround himself with only … Continue reading Russia Is Falling Into a Living 1984 Situation – And Some (Many? Even in the Center?) in the Right Wing Supports this Outcome For America
The Multiple Realizability Theory of Consciousness Emergence. (Always. Another. Way.)
We talked at our writers meet this past Monday a bit about Alfred Hitchcock and how he 'spoke' his films into existence with the theories he built up from his personal history. Of starting in silent films, moving into films with dialogue - but from this transition somewhere along the line developing a belief that … Continue reading The Multiple Realizability Theory of Consciousness Emergence. (Always. Another. Way.)
The Sun Also Rises going into public domain so I can legally say this: You are all a lost generation.
Ernest Hemingway's novel 'The Sun Also Rises' has just gone into the public domain with this batch of copyright-expired works this New Year. One of the few Hemingway books I've read... it opens with a quote Gertrude Stein imparted on Hemingway in conversation, "You are all a lost generation." Which became a shorthand name for … Continue reading The Sun Also Rises going into public domain so I can legally say this: You are all a lost generation.
A Hologram for the King (2016) – A Dave Eggers Novel to Film Adaptation that is Watchable but Makes One Mostly Curious About How Much Was Lost in Translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW4OE1egbHs Tom Hanks stars in this adaptation of one of my favorite contemporary / intelligently countercultural writers work - Dave Eggers - based on the novel of the same name 'A Hologram for the King' (which I haven't read). Hanks stars in another adaptation of Eggers' as well, 'The Circle' (2017) based on the novel … Continue reading A Hologram for the King (2016) – A Dave Eggers Novel to Film Adaptation that is Watchable but Makes One Mostly Curious About How Much Was Lost in Translation
Chinese Leader Xi to Arts Conference: Art Should Serve the State and ‘Vulgar’ Art Will Not Be Permitted – Itself a Vulgarity that Puts Art and Truth in Service to a Particular Government, Destroying any Ideal of Either
STORY Only that which makes you uncomfortable gives you an opportunity to grow. If you are a short sighted bureaucrat deciding which art is 'worthwhile', all you are doing is destroying the survivability of your society according to your own personal psychological needs and desires. Ensuring your system is rigid, self-reassuring, and weakening at every … Continue reading Chinese Leader Xi to Arts Conference: Art Should Serve the State and ‘Vulgar’ Art Will Not Be Permitted – Itself a Vulgarity that Puts Art and Truth in Service to a Particular Government, Destroying any Ideal of Either
In Our Time (BBC 4) Discusses PLATO’S Gorgias Dialogue – Rhetoric Contends With Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2038&v=4TuX4lrRYGE&feature=emb_logo What is the nature of rhetoric? Does persuasion seek flattery and gratification of the audience, often at the cost of the truth? Plato, who experienced tyranny and the unjust death sentence of his teacher Socrates, examines in the GORGIAS dialogue whether those who seek to win arguments… risk losing their souls. And is PHILOSOPHY (literally – … Continue reading In Our Time (BBC 4) Discusses PLATO’S Gorgias Dialogue – Rhetoric Contends With Truth
A Repeated Lie, Told Often Enough, Becomes The Liar’s Truth.
The Following is an Excerpt from Albert Camus's Novel 'THE FALL' The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and … Continue reading A Repeated Lie, Told Often Enough, Becomes The Liar’s Truth.
Tell Me, Good Brutus, Can You See Your Face?
Currently I am watching / reading Shakespeare's play JULIUS CAESAR. It's strange how I came to be doing so just now, as it was a combination of a quote about sleep in a Ted Talk on why we sleep ("Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber") which I wanted to use in connection with a metaphor … Continue reading Tell Me, Good Brutus, Can You See Your Face?
Teaching Classic Lit Helps Game Designers Make Better Stories – From Wired Magazine
Are you game? See How Homer, Faulkner, and Ibsen can help. CINDY FRENKEL CULTURE 02.25.2021 07:00 AM “THE LANGUAGE I’VE invented is pronounced with the same phonetics as Latin,” explained Justin Harlan, my 21-year-old student. He was doing a presentation on his video game Ordenai, which was so outstanding that it left my boisterous class speechless. This … Continue reading Teaching Classic Lit Helps Game Designers Make Better Stories – From Wired Magazine
The Haunted Typewriter 