Charlie Stross, who before becoming a novelist was a pharmacist, has written part 1 of a guide to poisons and poisoning — but for novelists, not would-be murderers!
My friend and former colleague Ralph Wood has written a lovely tribute to his old teacher Norman Maclean — author of A River Runs Through It.
Seba Jun: one of one.
Currently listening: Nujabes, Spiritual State ♫
Two quotations on what exists. The twoquotes tag is a favorite one of mine.
That experience, of meeting the audience on the dreaming plane, is what Lynch excelled at above any other director I can name. More than Luis Buñuel, or Ken Russell, or David Cronenberg, or Hayao Miyazaki, when I watch Lynch, I feel like I have been invited into his private dreams. Sometimes, as with Eraserhead or Blue Velvet, the result is an extraordinary feeling of communion. Other times, as with Inland Empire, I feel unable to meet him there; the world is too hermetic, and these are not my dreams.
My former colleague Beth Felker Jones: Christopher Hays “writes of a God who does bad things and has to learn better. He writes of a God who needs correction from humans, a God to whom we 21st century folk are morally superior…. Why would we worship a God who is so much less than us that he needs, according to CH, us (or Abraham, or Moses) to be his conscience? Why would we worship a God who is not fundamentally good?”
Every few days I read another piece about 😱The Tragedy of Literature In Our Post-Literate Society 😳, and when I do I always want to ask the authors just one question: When Milton wrote Paradise Lost, what percentage of the English population were literate enough to read it?