Reader, Writer, Writer, Reader

 

Has being a writer changed the way youread? What are you reading now?

Familiar with theimage of the snake eating its own tail?

 

It’s called the ouroboros, and it’s also a concise metaphorfor neurosis and obsession. A Hungarian scientist named August Kekulé saw themythological creature in a dream, and it inspired his model of benzene. Insteadof a linear chain of carbon atoms, Kekulé imagined a circle, and dashes around the hexagon indicated the type of bondsbetwee...