Poet Alice Notley says, “The tyrant is what enslaves us to our forms. The tyrant is the form of our life, the form of our politics, the form of our universities, the form of our knowledge, our thinking we know something. All of that is the tyrant.”
Category: words
Alone For The Holidays? Here’s Some Bibliotherapy, Or Just Some Good Books, For Your Free Time
Truer words were never written: “The important thing is deciding which book you’d like to spend those long empty days with.”
The Importance Of Being Wrong Is One Of Jane Austen’s Greatest Lessons
“Unlike other fictional heroines of the time, Fanny [Price of Mansfield Park] gains happiness because she is aware of her faults.”
Is This The World’s Coolest New Library?
Inside, there’s the collection of books, a center for city government services,
a computer center, a cafe, lecture halls, playgrounds, and an interactive floor; outside, there’s an even bigger playground and a giant tubular bell that rings every time a baby is born in town. Down below is a parking lot run by robots.
Meet The Writers Who Have Sold Not Just Millions Of Books, But Hundreds Of Millions
There are best-selling authors, and then there are mega-best-selling authors — writers who have sold 100 million copies or more. Writers like Ken Follett, Nora Roberts, James Patterson and Stephenie Meyer. And there may be more of them now than ever.
Emoji Are Bi – That’s Bi-Directional, Says Linguist
“Emoji are bidirectional: Not only can they express actions, but they can also directly represent spatial relationships. Emoji are a special case for her discipline – linguists disagree about whether they’re even words, and society’s use of them is maturing before their collective eyes.”
Lemony Snicket Creates A Poetry Prize
It seems that when the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events – né Daniel Handler – was on location in Vancouver for the shooting of Netflix’s upcoming Series series, he never spent his per diem. So he’s come up with a use for that money.
57 Years Ago Barbara Roston Checked Out A Library Book. This Year She Decided To Return It
This volume was due back on Nov. 18, 1959. After 20,842 days since, Ms. Roston would owe the library $1,042.10…
The Hazards Of David Foster Wallace Disease
“The specific quality of Wallace I wanted to mimic is what I’d call his gift of sight. He had a way of generating luminosity by perfectly capturing tiny pieces of sensation spliced out from even the most banal moment of consciousness—his descriptive powers could give the sound of an air conditioner the consequence of a dying star. He had seemingly endless receptivity.”
We’re Saved! Merriam-Webster’s 2016 Word Of The Year Is Not ‘Fascism’!
These folks, unlike their colleagues, name their Word of the Year based on what gets the most search queries – and at the beginning of this month, they sent out a plea saying that “fascism” was in the lead and “There’s still time to look something else up.” Looks like we (or they) came through: Merriam-Webster’s official word for 2016 is something all-too-fitting.