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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: Enclaves for self-defense
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Monday, 15 June 2015. In Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel, The Discreet Hero. Don Rigoberto finds in this hoarder’s instinct a necessary reassurance and a rather bourgeois piece of mind. What’s interesting here is not the idealisation of civilization as such but rather its enclavisation, its capacity to lock itself up in a closet of self-sufficiency. In other words, what weR...Vargas ...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: Writing and garbage (a kind of advice, if I may)
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Sunday, 6 April 2014. Writing and garbage (a kind of advice, if I may). A couple of days ago, Seth Godin published one of his brief but dense posts. On the blog he is managing, and that post got me thinking. For every post that makes it to this blog, I write at least three, sometimes more. That means that on a regular basis, I delete some of my favorite (almost good) writing.". In practic...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: The pleasure we take in surveillance
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Monday, 22 June 2015. The pleasure we take in surveillance. We have grown to love the veneer of surveillance. Who would have thought! Technology has finally caught up with the discontent of scrutiny, with the Big-Brother scare, so now we're doing it in our own terms: over and over again, watching and liking it so much; partaking in an orgy of clandestine looks. Is, for instance! The game ...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: Call me clumsy
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Sunday, 4 May 2014. It’s funny how clumsiness dismisses authority. When speaking to a person with an accent, we suddenly slow down, speak in spaced words, simplify our vocabulary. As if having been born in a language where vocal chords are used differently makes one stupid without remedy. In a person who speaks with an accent we see a potential to err. To us, is proper design. 8211; this ...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: A carnival of gaffes
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Monday, 27 July 2015. A carnival of gaffes. Let’s look at this hunt for errors from a more technical perspective. Or a more technological one, to put it otherwise. Or just from another perspective, pure and simple. The example of the book reviews of last week. What makes them so appealing, so exciting? The age of the non-expert. Yes, this constant hunt for errors is the result of the new ...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: June 2015
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Monday, 29 June 2015. Flaubert and a metaphor for reading. Source: Look and Learn. A lot of writers aim towards satisfying this anticipation. Most of them do it unknowingly. Many see where they need to go in order to achieve the right effect. Few actually get there. Flaubert achieved it in Madame Bovary. The famous cab scene. There, the reader is trapped in their own anticipation....I lik...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: The losing of dreams
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Monday, 27 October 2014. The losing of dreams. Light, the destroyer. And then – damn, I wake up. And every time I ask: Why do I have to wake up? Why do I have to ruin this wonderful moment? I find this in a poem by Tomas Tranströmer, and I know he means exactly what I’ve been saying so far. 8220;A dizzying commedia that is inscribed. Inside the eyelids’ monastery walls. At the threshold, ...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: Causerie à deux in “Kathleenville”
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Sunday, 25 May 2014. Causerie à deux in “Kathleenville”. An interview with Kathleen Winter. Two months ago I published. A post on this blog. Which was a review of Kathleen Winter’s novel,. It was followed, soon after, by a review on my other blog,. Where I called it “a book of contrasts.” The novel had been a finalist in the 2014 edition of. Croydon Harbour feels like a place that had.
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: July 2015
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Monday, 27 July 2015. A carnival of gaffes. Let’s look at this hunt for errors from a more technical perspective. Or a more technological one, to put it otherwise. Or just from another perspective, pure and simple. The example of the book reviews of last week. What makes them so appealing, so exciting? The age of the non-expert. Yes, this constant hunt for errors is the result of the new ...
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic: The fault in our stars (a narrative paraphrase)
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Francisc Nona's Word Epidemic. Why live when you can read? Why die when you can write? Why bother when you can share? Monday, 20 July 2015. The fault in our stars (a narrative paraphrase). There’s a pleasure we seem to take in looking for gaffes, for slip-ups. And that’s what I want to think about this week. Source: Why to Read. When I started posting my book reviews on Zero to One. Texts need space to breathe. But not everything must. Kernels and satellites, two elements of any narrative. He makes it as...
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