Saturday, December 25, 2021
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Sunday, November 21, 2021
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Thursday, July 15, 2021
Rabbits by Terry Miles
Recommended by Cory Doctorow, loved discovering a new author and one also born in Sakatchewan. Add to that, the setting for the novel is right here in the neighborhood, main character born in Olympia with action in and around Seattle.
Gaming history melds into conspiracy theory with a sprinkling of quantum philosophy for good measure, RABBITS is flush with questing portals. "Look it up" is one of my librarian favorites and prompts side search jaunts into Wikipedia and Duckduckgo while reading. Not only did it fill in informational holes I didn't even know were there but extended my novel reading time. And this was one I was in no hurry to finish while not being able to put it down.
On that note, let us review:
Baader Meinhoff Phenomenon aka Frequency Illusion
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
Poetry and Psychotherapy
https://stenenpress.com/thoughts-on-poetry/
"The very poetry and party of the universe are reflecting back in tiny versions across the tiny minds strewn on earth."
"The untranslated that must be addressed in the psyche needs relation to a human, in real time, to be actually translated."
"In other words, we are all the “reader” and the potential “writer.” We
mutually create one another’s projected shit. “It requires two minds to
think a person’s most disturbing thoughts,” Wilfred Bion said. We make
it real. We mutually transmute it. We continue its life and add to it.
We make one another eternal."
Saturday, June 19, 2021
Poetry Will Process Emotions
https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/as-poetry-charts-a-pop-culture-comeback-a-look-at-how-rhyme-rhythm-and-verse-help-us-express-emotion-9702931.html
"Words contagiously move us. As neuroscientist Christian Keysers explains in The Empathic Brain..."
"Of particular interest is the role of mirror neurons.
These brain cells fire when an action is observed or performed, and
they tell us a lot about how we understand the actions of others. They
suggest understanding comes from mirroring or imitation that takes place
in the brain but is acted out or felt in the body."
Wednesday, June 09, 2021
Writers Dream
Katherine Mansfield dreams of Oscar Wilde
Vladimir Nabokov dreams of seeking butterflies with a spoon
Ernest Hemingway dreams of war. . . and also sex
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Cinquain
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/cinquain-examples.html
Originally, Adelaide Crapsey created the form for the American cinquain with five lines. Each line is stressed in a specific way. Additionally, as the form progressed, a syllable structure was added.
Stresses Per Line
Explore the composition of each line by looking at the specific stressed and unstressed syllables.
- The first line has one stress, which was usually an iambic meter with the first syllable unstressed and the second stressed.
- Line two has two stresses.
- Line three has three stresses.
- Line four has four stresses.
- Line five has one stress.
Syllables Per Line
Following the invention of this form, writers made changes to the form and included a certain number of syllables per line.
- Line one has two syllables.
- Line two has four syllables.
- Line three has six syllables.
- Line four has eight syllables.
- Line five has two syllables.
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Philosophical Resource
Informationphilosopher.com
"Perhaps the most amazing thing about information philosophy is its discovery that abstract and immaterial information can exert an influence over concrete matter, explaining how mind can move body, how our thoughts can control our actions, deeply related to the way the quantum wave function (randomly) controls the probabilities of locating quantum particles"
Tuesday, May 04, 2021
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