February 2012
20 posts
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or...”
– William James (via inquisitiveowl)
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quality control →
The one where I write about an imagined future where all of the metadata is clean, all of the content is carefully edited, and nobody judges me for how often I eat nachos for dinner.
(**the part about the nachos is implicit.)
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The most interesting man in the world, dead at 74 →
For all its bravura, Mr. Fairfax’s seafaring almost pales beside his earlier ventures. Footloose and handsome, he was a flesh-and-blood character out of Graham Greene, with more than a dash of Hemingway and Ian Fleming shaken in.
At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon jungle.
At 20, he attempted suicide-by-jaguar. Afterward he was apprenticed to a pirate. To...
“I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that I do not know him at all. I...”
– Things My Friends Say About Other People
“The explanation for this effect returns us to the benefits of not being able to...”
– Jonah Lehrer on why being sleepy and drunk is great for creativity. Lehrer’s must-read new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, comes out in March and is now available on pre-order. (via curiositycounts)
“1. Go through your piece and flip the gender of your descriptive phrases’...”
– “How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide.” (via marathonpacks)
“Rather than set the world on fire with radical contigency, I expect that ebooks...”
– Carl Zimmer responds to Jonathan Franzen’s rant against ebooks. (via curiositycounts)
underwater
kelsfjord:
JOAN DIDION: So I abandoned the idea of being an oceanographer, but I can see myself still as an oceanographer, if I could get to that point.
BLVR: Does it seem like a happier life?
JD: A happier life? I don’t know. I’ve liked being a writer.
BLVR: It’s a different way of going underwater.
JD: It’s a way of going underwater, yes. Well, I’ve always been interested in how deep it...
