Quote from “The Man Who Shouted Teresa” by Italo Calvino
My shadow took fright at the moon and huddled between my feet.
First Nine is One Demo
Just a quick teaser demo of a new song that’s coming from Greg’s and my new collaboration, Nine is One. Much more work to do here, but we’re really psyched about the sound that’s growing!
colloquy – for when you need to elevate your conversations
from col– together + –loquium speaking, from loqui to speak A talking together; a conversation, dialogue. Also, a written dialogue. A meeting for conference. Church blah blah. All the modern dictionaries mention that it’s specific to elevated speech/conversation. Interesting that “colloquial” is used to mean common speech.
coruscate – for when you need a little flash and sparkle
VERB literary (of light) flash or sparkle. ‘the light was coruscating through the walls’ Origin Early 18th century from Latin coruscat- ‘glittered’, from the verb coruscare. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/coruscate NB: Never doubt my commitment to Sparkle Motion.
Norman Mailer on Politics and Cigarettes
Politics has its virtues, all too many of them—it would not rank with baseball as a topic of conversation if it did not satisfy a great many things—but one can suspect that its secret appeal is close to nicotine. Smoking cigarettes insulates one from one’s life, one does not feel as much, often happily so, … Read more
The nut, the moron, the stylist, and the critic
I liked this bit from Susan Sontag’s journals. Apparently, the LitHub post from whence this came was in violation of something, so it’s gone. Rules for Being a Writer from Sontag’s journals, December 3, 1961 The writer must be four people: The nut, the obsédé The moron The stylist The critic 1 supplies the material; … Read more
Books that wish they were movies
I know I’m not the first to notice that lots of recently-authored books seem more like a verbose screenplay written in prose than a novel. This seems to especially be the case with genre books. I recently finished the first book in an acclaimed new fantasy series, the Draconis Memoria trilogy. The Waking Fire is … Read more
I work, therefore I meditate, therefore I work harder.
As workplaces demand that their employees hustle harder in a more precarious world, mindfulness has emerged as a means to manage stress and increase productivity. Since its import to America, it has been oddly well-suited at making the individual citizen responsible for mitigating the suffering and loss that our necrotic social structures have induced. So … Read more