> Too much Christmas music can mentally harm you https://t.co/myw4zshkwO pic.twitter.com/J7HdKSiG77 [https://t.co/J7HdKSiG77] — Big Think (@bigthink) November 2, 2018 [https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1058406785751629824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> In the last days before midterms, small army on the left is sending handwritten postcards by the millions https://t.co/y55PnZ4LxV — William Wan (@thewanreport) November 2, 2018 [https://twitter.com/thewanreport/status/1058388011115859974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
but related, I think. > The Value of Reading Things We Disagree with: "By not saying what we quite wished to hear, the author brings us into contact with what we truly believe, and does us the service of releasing us from our intellectual underconfidence and languor." Read…
> “I always have a certain pile of books that never changes. I have to replace all of them at some point because they’ve gotten completely decrepit. Joan Didion, ‘The White Album.’ Ian Frazier, ‘Great Plains.’ ‘Giving Good Weight,’ John McPhee.” https://t.co/P5Y1J8SUe5 — The Paris Review (@parisreview)…
> Walter Isaacson says going through Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks gave him a profound appreciation for paper: “Its battery never runs down. Its operating system never goes out of style…” https://t.co/HjIseh1v7W — PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) October 12, 2018 [https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1050576790610051072?ref_src=twsrc%…
> 8 Professional Translators Choose Their Favorite 'Untranslatable' Words — https://t.co/o99ZdEXeKI pic.twitter.com/ZbOyv76nDZ [https://t.co/ZbOyv76nDZ] — Mental Floss (@mental_floss) September 10, 2018 [https://twitter.com/mental_floss/status/1039225248741294080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
http://bookmania.me/post/177868454677/litafficionado-in-my-poetry-class-ive-always…
Surprised to find this image in Brain Picking's note about George Orwell's essays [https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/06/25/george-orwell-why-i-write/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brainpickings%2Frss+%28Brain+Pickings%29] . As early as 1946, seems he had clear…