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From Commentary – Writing on the Brain: Writing on the Brain Joseph Epstein I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of … Continue reading No comment
Today, my physical therapist said it’d be a good idea to try walking around more without my ankle brace, so I’ve actually been walking around like a Real Person all afternoon and evening. I celebrated with Cosmopolitans and a viewing of Hellboy. Wasn’t a bad movie, but it wasn’t as good as the proverbial “everyone” … Continue reading we will enjoy springtime
Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter. One need not be a haikai poet, but if someone doesn’t live inside ordinary life and understand ordinary feelings, he’s not likely to be a poet. [These come from Learn from the Pine, by Basho, included in Robert Hass’s Essential Haiku. I think I’ll … Continue reading Basho on Poetry
In reading The Golden Compass, I’m remembering why so many so-called “adult” books bore me: very little happens in them, and even when it does, it’s hard to care about the characters it happens to. In this book, much happens, and I care about all the people, some of whom I don’t even like. I … Continue reading Newtonian physics in real life, good books, and a cat.
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