Bill Cheng's Blog, page 49
January 13, 2014
"Realize some egomaniacs put it all in print so they can be polite in person."
- Sarah Manguso, “Ten Years” (from Unsaid 4)
'Body maps' reveal what anger looks likeHumans describe...
'Body maps' reveal what anger looks like
Humans describe emotions in a variety of ways.
Love makes our hearts swell, shame burns our faces, and depression makes us quite literally feel nothing.
Now science has proved that there’s some truth to how the human body experiences emotions.
Is that…Spider-Man…?
January 12, 2014
"No creative person I know who’s encountered this book has not been deeply moved by it, both by its..."
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Iconic graphic designer Chip Kidd on Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware, arguably the greatest cartoonist working today.
Highly recommended complement: The most thorough and revealing interview with the notoriously reticent and introverted Ware.
(via explore-blog)
January 11, 2014
theparisreview:
“Franz Kafka once called his writing a form of...
“Franz Kafka once called his writing a form of prayer.
“He also reprimanded the long-suffering Felice Bauer in a letter: ‘I did not say that writing ought to make everything clearer, but instead makes everything worse; what I said was that writing makes everything clearer and worse.’
“He frequently fretted that he was not a human being and that what he bore on his body was not a human head. Once he dreamt that as he lay in bed, he began to jump out the open window continuously at quarter-hour intervals.
“‘Then trains came and one after another they ran over my body, outstretched on the tracks, deepening and widening the two cuts in my neck and legs.’
“I didn’t give him that one, the Lord said.
“Not His Best”
—Joy Williams, from 99 Stories of God
Art via
January 6, 2014
J. R. R. Tolkien on escapism in “The Lord of the Rings”...
J. R. R. Tolkien on escapism in “The Lord of the Rings” (x)
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
January 4, 2014
"Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?
—Albert Camus"
Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?
—Albert Camus
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Albert Camus died 54 yeas ago today.
(via thetinhouse)
