https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Songs?wprov=sfti1
The Dream Songs are a collection of poems with characters, etc. Henry bears somewhat of resemblance to Berryman.
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The Dream Songs are a collection of poems with characters, etc. Henry bears somewhat of resemblance to Berryman.
Berryman’s Dream Song 14 is one of my favorites. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47534/dream-song-14
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/PT.3.4521
Great quote: “Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.”
Also, I like this journal’s web design. Very well done for mobile.
[330] An act of parliament has been since passed by which some breaches of trust have been made capital.
Part 1 - https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer (hardware projects/chapters 1-6)
Part 2 - https://www.coursera.org/learn/nand2tetris2 (software projects/chapters 7-12)
However this summary is poorly written. Who’s this Segan guy? /s
However this post was great.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads
I’m on episode 3. So far there have been interviews with Steve Bales (guidance), Gene Kranz (flight director), etc.
(It was recommended by someone else in another thread. Thanks to whoever that was!)
In many cases, books (and other forms of expression/art) are acclaimed for being difficult -- but they're difficult for the sake of being difficult. There's difficulty but no reward. After having read some of these books (or attempted to), I think they're pointless.
However, we do need challenging books/art. Challenges are how we grow, develop, improve, etc. Something can be challenging without being difficult/impenetrable.
Also, challenges come in various forms: they can be stylistic (difficult prose) as well as moral or intellectual or political. (One common complaint I hear about fiction is: "I don't like the characters." Well, yeah, that's sort of the point: you probably wouldn't like a lot of people if you knew them.)
Some concrete examples:
Novels:
Joyce's Ulysses: I actually really like Ulysses. As a whole, it's a slog. But there are wonderful passages throughout. It's also very funny.
Wallace's Infinite Jest: same as above, often even funnier as the humor is more contemporary.
Films:
Malick's The Tree of Life: a wonderful, slow, all-encompassing film that doesn't rely on the conventional approach to narrative
As to bindings, I've always been a fan of spiral bound books.
There's also the Japanese style of printing shorter books in multiple volumes (at least I think this is the case - correct me if I'm wrong).
Given my aversion to paper-based reading, I've enjoyed using my Kindle, smartphone, and tablet to read. However, now there's two more problems. First, my smartphone is a constant source of distraction (calls, texts, work emails, personal emails, app notifications, etc.). Second, it feels like I spend the majority of my waking life looking at either a computer screen, a smartphone screen, or a Kindle screen -- it's kind of unsettling.
Also, as with a lot of (maybe all?) fiction/art, you can't disregard the context in which it was published. Some critics might disagree with this. But when you consider the socio-cultural situation, especially of Jewish Americans, Roth's work -- especially Portnoy -- was radical, earnest, and subversive. For many years, the American Jewish community regarded him with disdain.
He also often got labeled as a misogynist, which I always found strange. Although his writing is overtly sexual, it was also in attempt to make a point about sexuality. Not to glorify it.
As to the content, there's the good and the bad.
First, the bad: I feel like the websites on the Internet of yore were akin to the counter-cultural zines of the pre-digital era. They were made by passionate, creative, intelligent individuals and consumed by the same. Modern websites are more like mainstream magazine-tabloids: a strange blend of glossy, clickbaity journalism that prioritize going viral - or, at the least, being provocative - over everything. E.g., even as a liberal, I find myself groaning whenever I read slate.com.
The good is that there are places like HN, through which we can find thousands of high-quality sites - many of them created by individuals like the creators of those old school zines. (There are also places like reddit, which foster all types of communities, but I'm a bit conflicted on that website.) Anyway, if anything, the good content is out there, we just need places like HN to help us find it!
They're just talking about regulators and compliance officers. The former work at the SEC/FINRA, and the latter work in-house for banks, broker-dealers, and investment firms.