February 2012
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“If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.” (Elif Shafak)
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction...
Hmmm ... Pleasure
It’s 1:30 am — I’m dead tired and sleepy despite waking up late. I just had a cocoa, a root beer. I cooked my own meal, and I feel bloated. I gotta wake up at 8:30 am to exercise as per the new ritual. I can’t just sleep in, cause I’m doing it with a friend, who’s also my neighbor, who very faithfully helps me train for Shaolin and who does knock and call...
Quick tip
Listen to this woman talk about relationships. She knows what she’s talking about.
Anthony Shadid →
“He felt ineluctably that he could not leave that story at a crucial time. It was a commitment shouldered without arrogance but with a clear — and in my opinion, correct — assessment that if he didn’t tell the stories he was telling, no one would.”
“The people he wrote about were never subjects. They each were a world, in which he became engrossed for the...
“If you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?” … “Frankly, my...”
– For years I was haunted by that line from Gone with the Wind, one of my mom’s favorite movies. The heroine, Scarlett, is a famous Aries woman, fiery and lacking in insight, but never in vision and fierceness. I also feared I would become her. And I wondered if ever there was something Scarlett... 