Etiqueta: writingcommunity
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What are books?
PLACE, PRACTICE, AND KNOWLEDGEBooks are a load of crap. PHILIP LARKIN, «A Study of Reading Habits,» Collected Poems, 131 I read that in THE NATURE OF THE BOOK. Print and Knowledge in the making. ADRIAN JOHNS. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. CHICAGO AND LONDON. Considering books are not necessarily THE truth, this thought [coming from a poet] is a bold declaration from the perspective of…
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¿Qué es real?
En comparación con los libros que leía, la «vida real» tenía todas las de perder (es decir, lo que para OTROS era la «vida real»). Contra la lectura. Mikita Brottman. Blackie books. [The Solitary Vice (Counterpoint, 2008)]. La autora Nikita Brottman [hablando de como la lectura era para ella no solo un refugio contra la…
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Does your fiction begin with death?
Perhaps a Hero has no romantic partner, and is looking for the «missing piece» to complete her life. Thisis often symbolized in fairy tales by having the Hero experience a loss or a death in the family. Many fairy tales begin with the death of a parent or the kidnapping of a brother or sister.…
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Cry
No. No? I shall today. Tomorrow a bit less. And by morrow’s night, I’ll be eating snacks. Yes. It will hurt a lot Aye, you can bet. I won’t forget. However, The next awaits. No one will as much You threatened. How to be so sure? Cause I’m me and me is worth, Of living on…
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¿Qué es un libro?
LUGAR, PRÁCTICA Y CONOCIMIENTOLos libros son un montón de mierda. PHILIP LARKIN, «A Study of Reading Habits,» Collected Poems, 131 Eso lo leí en THE NATURE OF THE BOOK. Print and Knowledge in the making. ADRIAN JOHNS. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS. CHICAGO AND LONDON. Considerando que los libros no son necesariamente LA VERDAD, este pensamiento [de un poeta] es una declaración muy atrevida desde…
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Is fiction proper?
Yet, despite drawing on much older material, the author of the ‘Four Branches’ attempts to make the tales relevant to his own time, and indeed to any period, by using them to convey his views regarding appropriate moral behaviour, doing so by implication rather than by any direct commentary. THE MABINOGION. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by SIONED…
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Am I to blame?
Marty You forgot the shame. You chose guilt To have double time the fun You forgot respect Then what you got was paid-back And you still ask? Oh dear Marty, Live without consciousness. Having done nothing wrong. With the major sin of accepting none. Irrelevant it was? Ignore. Until you can’t.
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¿Qué es lo que le hace la IA a la confiabilidad del impreso?
Las consecuencias prácticas son que no tenemos que agonizar sobre la confiabilidad de un libro publicado antes de que lo pongamos en uso. No es necesaria una investigación para confirmar que el autor existe en efecto y que el texto está autorizado. La contratación de un espía literario que nos confirme que la casa editorial…
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Is communication overrated?
When communication nonetheless breaks down (as it sometimes does) we can pinpoint the error and make our language more specific: Yet another dark, oven-hot morning in yet another hotel bedroom, packing, dressing… and now I couldn’t find my sock. I opened the door of the wardrobe and said, ‘Have you seen my sock?’ ‘Shut it,’ she said. ‘I was…
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The whole cake
In whole For decompress Gobble up Starve before Think there’s nothing more And afterwards To a single comment Get mad and howl About your saintness Boring man I know you want more than one piece For cake is the thing you eat whole adding more without remorse But if the cake wants to fly free What’s your…