The Believer - Donald Barthelme's Syllabus
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Barry is a 51 year old guy from Stateless, Wallis and Futuna Islands
"... you are changed to me and I to you, the way that creases remain always in a sheet of paper that has once been folded." (from "Mary Brunton" by John Stammers)
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A Midsummer Nights Dream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rated • 1 review • literature • wikipedia.org
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&Alchemy and Puppetry: A Prague Sojourn& by Terri Windling
Rated • 1 review • literature, prague • endicott-studio.com
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The lost art of reading - Los Angeles Times
Rated • 10 reviews • literature • latimes.com
A well-written, and thought-provoking article. The culture of The Now, the need for distraction, and the loss of being able to slow down and just read for the sheer pleasure of being absorbed in a book.
via Desdemona
- "I pick up a book and read a paragraph; then my mind wanders and I check my e-mail, drift onto the Internet, pace the house before returning to the page. Or I want to do these things but don't. I force myself to remain still, to follow whatever I'm reading until the inevitable moment I give myself over to the flow. Eventually I get there, but some nights it takes 20 pages to settle down. What I'm struggling with is the encroachment of the buzz, the sense that there is something out there that merits my attention, when in fact it's mostly just a series of disconnected riffs and fragments that add up to the anxiety of the age....
..We live in time; we understand ourselves in relation to it, but in our culture, time collapses into an ever-present now. How do we pause when we must know everything instantly? How do we ruminate when we are constantly expected to respond? How do we immerse in something (an idea, an emotion, a decision) when we are no longer willing to give ourselves the space to reflect?"
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Rated • 20 reviews • literature • simplecdn.net
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Amazon deletes 1984 from Kindles, Orwell rolls in grave |...
Rated • 45 reviews • literature • scifiwire.com
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