Had on his wall, I'm told, a motto: Not everything that counts is countable, and not everything that is countable, counts.
Godel, simplified.
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Contacts
French author Pierre Magnan :
Contacts: "En principe, je réponds à tous les eMails que je reçois, mais entre ceux-ci et ma réponse, il peut s'écouler quelques semaines. Je précise qu'un livre prend plusieurs mois à écrire et que pendant le temps où on écrit , on n'est disponible pour rien d'autre.
En dehors des rendez-vous ponctuels d'un écrivain avec ses lecteurs, vous pouvez me rencontrer souvent le lundi matin, jour de Marché à FORCALQUIER, au Café du Bourguet (entre la pharmacie et la Caisse d'Épargne)"
Contacts: "En principe, je réponds à tous les eMails que je reçois, mais entre ceux-ci et ma réponse, il peut s'écouler quelques semaines. Je précise qu'un livre prend plusieurs mois à écrire et que pendant le temps où on écrit , on n'est disponible pour rien d'autre.
En dehors des rendez-vous ponctuels d'un écrivain avec ses lecteurs, vous pouvez me rencontrer souvent le lundi matin, jour de Marché à FORCALQUIER, au Café du Bourguet (entre la pharmacie et la Caisse d'Épargne)"
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Dubner's blog
From the preface to the revised and exampnaed edition of Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
The further bonus material is what accounts for our having called this edition "expanded" in addition to "revised." Soon after the original publication of Freakonomics, in April 2005, we began writing a monthly column for the New York Times Magazine. We have included in this edition several of these columns, on subjects ranging from voting behavior to dog poop to the economics of sexual preference.
We have also included a variety of writings from our blog (http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/), like this revised edition, was not planned. In the beginning, we built a website merely to perform archival and trafficking functions. We blogged reluctantly, tentatively, infrequently. But as the months went on, and as we discovered an audience of people who had read Freakonomics and were eager to bat its ideas back and forth, we took to it more enthusiastically.
A blog, as it turns out, is an author's perfect antidote for that sickening feeling of being dead in the water once a manuscript has been completed. Particularly for a book like this one, a book of ideas, there is nothing more intoxicating than to be able to extend those ideas, to continue to refine and challenge and wrestle with them, even as the world rnarches on.
The further bonus material is what accounts for our having called this edition "expanded" in addition to "revised." Soon after the original publication of Freakonomics, in April 2005, we began writing a monthly column for the New York Times Magazine. We have included in this edition several of these columns, on subjects ranging from voting behavior to dog poop to the economics of sexual preference.
We have also included a variety of writings from our blog (http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/), like this revised edition, was not planned. In the beginning, we built a website merely to perform archival and trafficking functions. We blogged reluctantly, tentatively, infrequently. But as the months went on, and as we discovered an audience of people who had read Freakonomics and were eager to bat its ideas back and forth, we took to it more enthusiastically.
A blog, as it turns out, is an author's perfect antidote for that sickening feeling of being dead in the water once a manuscript has been completed. Particularly for a book like this one, a book of ideas, there is nothing more intoxicating than to be able to extend those ideas, to continue to refine and challenge and wrestle with them, even as the world rnarches on.
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Basil Bunting Poetry Centre: Bunting texts
Bunting's advice to young poetsBasil Bunting Poetry Centre: Bunting texts
I SUGGEST
1. Compose aloud; poetry is a sound.
2. Vary rhythm enough to stir the emotion you want but not so as to lose impetus.
3. Use spoken words and syntax.
4. Fear adjective; they bleed nouns. Hate the passive.
5. Jettison ornament gaily but keep shape
Put your poem away till you forget it, then:
6. Cut out every word you dare.
7. Do it again a week later, and again.
Never explain - your reader is as smart as you.
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Saturday, 10 November 2007
Monday, 5 November 2007
Donald Michie
From the Daily Telegraph:
And no Christian, however sure of his place in heaven, could have died with more bravery and style than he showed when cancer laid him low. He produced a final couplet, Cancer, or the Biter Bitten.
I used to fancy crabmeat as a treat: / Now Crab's the epicure, and I'm the meat.
And no Christian, however sure of his place in heaven, could have died with more bravery and style than he showed when cancer laid him low. He produced a final couplet, Cancer, or the Biter Bitten.
I used to fancy crabmeat as a treat: / Now Crab's the epicure, and I'm the meat.
Saturday, 3 November 2007
Rough Men who stand ready
From a tribute to Conor Cruise O'Brien - 90 today.It's men like the Cruiser who keep us safe | Dean Godson - Times Online
In words attributed to George Orwell: “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” The “Cruiser” remains the roughest of intellectuals - and these islands are the better for it.
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