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I started tracking my food with an app earlier this year, which my friends tell me is going to give me an eating disorder, and I reply, "Is it a disorder, or is it an abundance of order? ," and they reply, "Tony—that is an eating disorder."
A Chat with Tony Tulathimutte
In the utter darkness
Of a moonless night
A powerful wind embraces
— Bashō
Lying in your diary is a disservice to yourself. Doing so will prevent you from being close to others.
We know that, because of the way the Earth bulges as it spins, the water levels of equatorial seas are some twenty-one kilometres higher than the sea ice at the North Pole. (This bulge also complicates how we think about mountain heights, since the peak of Mt. Chimborazo, rising close to the equator, is actually farther from the center of the plane... See more
Our Very Strange Search for “Sea Level”
Manifesting the proper brainspace to be able to think clearly enough to read and write is probably even more important than having ideas or skill; in fact, the latter would seem to emerge out of the former.
Blake Butler • Maximizing Time for Reading
Over the years I’ve had some very talented students who wrote these big novels in which the water never boiled. They were, essentially, entire books of exposition.
George Saunders • Boiling Water
George Saunders on escalation
That difference would be effaced, would become undocumentable by the object in and of itself — it becomes unavailable even in fantasy to believe that an object alone could manifest its aura.
Rob Horning • Enough Pentelic Marble
Literature, to me, is about adding as much complicating information as possible, since this kind of storytelling gets closer and closer to “the real truth” – that is, to the actuality of things just as they are.
George Saunders • On Political Writing
Have you ever read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud? He talks about how the magic of comics is in the space between panels—“the gutters.” What the reader puts together in the gutters, the narrative leap they make between frames, is the most powerful part of the medium. I thought a bit about how what I didn’t show between chapters could sustain... See more