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The average American has 3 eggs, but has demand for 15. So here are 12 photographs of eggs. I am a business man.
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By the way, here's the Tarkovsky explaining why he holds his shots as long as he does.
You don't necessarily have to agree with it, but it is his filmmaking philosophy. If you remove it, it is not a Tarkovsky film in any meaningful sense.
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Here's the thing.
The stillness of Tarkovsky's images is essential to his filmmaking. He wrote about the importance of stillness and time in his movies. He described filmmaking as "sculpting in time."
These movements are antithetical to the entire point of a Tarkovsky film.
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The globalization of news has made the whole worldâs problems our problem, fostering a sense of powerlessness thatâs led many to redefine morality from âdoing goodâ to merely âfeeling badâ.
C. S. Lewis noted this in his 1946 letter to Bede Griffiths:
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Bill Watterson, the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes, on creating a meaningful life
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December 4 is International Day of Banks. Both James Joyce and TS Eliot worked for banks and Eliot continued to do so even after The Waste Land was published. Ezra Pound said "it is a crime against literature to let him waste eight hours vitality per diem in that bank."
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This is everything. In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the best things ever:
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If you see this, and if you agree that no child should be a victim of violence, I humbly ask you to share this, to help others see.
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Gerald Murnaneâs compact and highly finished style distinguishes him from other writersâProust, W. G. Sebald, Rachel Cuskâwho render the act of contemplation. nyer.cm/kBdzngi
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If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child.
Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn
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Indigo Perry on visiting her old teacher, Gerald Murnane: âHe said that what he most remembered about knowing me was how I once wrote about a girl who jumped up and down. I have no recollection of ever writing about the girl and her jumping up and down.â
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William Weightman retweeted
âIt is quite possibleâoverwhelmingly probable, one might guessâthat we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology.â
- Noam Chomsky
He was awarded the @ucddublin Ulysses Medal in 2013.
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R.I.P. Paul Auster. Hereâs his unapologetic advice to young writers. Read âThe New York Trilogy.â Read âLeviathan.â Read âTravels in the Scriptorium.â
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I canât quite believe that yesterday morning I got to interview one of my favourite writers: Gerald Murnane. Gerald has never worn headphones before so it was a day of firsts all round. You can hear our conversation on @BBCRadio4âs Open Book this Sunday afternoon at 4 pm.
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âI'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things.
Poet and writer Dorothy Parker, born #OTD 1893 - relatable always, in her total defeat by writer's block.
