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Nelson
2 The Girl From The Chartreuse
My current reading matter.
“Books are gateways. They are doors. You can open them and step into another place, and time. Another world. They hold our futures, but are also a treasury of our formative memories. Books are where I’ve met some of my closest friends…”
—Chris Riddell, The Writer’s Map
“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”
—G.C. Lichtenberg, The Waste Books
3 How songs come into being (a Paul Simon case study)
Austin Kleon's blog post is a good place to start.
4 Letter
- Today I did almost nothing.
Read a little, tried to write a sentence
to make another sentence seem necessary.
I wasn't unhappy. Everything
I could will myself to do I'd done,
so I said I'd done enough.
Now I'm looking out my window:
white pine, ash, a single birch,
the leanings and crossings
of branches. And then the sky:
pale, undecided. Years ago
you wrote to me about a matter
that worried you, and you said
at the end, "That's probably the best,
and most true, way to think about it."
I kept your sentence in my notebook.
I liked its shape. I admired the way,
young as you were, you could feel
one kind of thinking
adjusting into another, one truth
becoming a better truth.
Now you're far off, and alone, and I
have no advice you haven't already
given yourself. What can I tell you?
That I'm here? That today, when I saw
how tenderly the light was moving
among those trees, I thought of you?
—Lawrence Raab, "Letter"
Mesmerising film!
Overtime: The five universal laws of stupidity
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