The Lou Reed / Metallica Venn Diagram of Doom. From the March 2012 issue of Classic Rock.
“Will your work survive? Probably not, but so what? You won’t survive, either. 100 years from now you’re very likely to be dead. Even if your work survives, it won’t do you much good. In the meantime that still leaves lots of people today to potentially read your stuff, argue about it, be inspired by it (or react against it) and generally make a lot of noise about it. You might even make a living at it, which is a bonus. Focus on those people today, and on today’s times. Enjoy it all now. Enjoy it while it lasts. Then when it’s over, you can say you had fun at the time.” — John Scalzi, A Small Meditation on Art, Commerce, and Impermanence
12 Bookstore Cats - Mental Floss
I’m pretty sure that the Internet is a giant Skinner Box
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The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,
Wanted to lean, wanted much to be
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.
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Ugh. -
Never been a big fan of Mark Driscoll, but this puts me off of him completely. Requiring a member to detail and reveal all of their past sexual sins as part of a “restoration” process? Sorry, no. Not Christian. Not Biblical.
“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” — Blaise Pascal
From the Department of Redundancy Department