Ever since I stopped working full-time and moved out to live on my own, people have been asking me this question, as if it was a puzzle that kept them up all night.
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by Richard Brautigan
Misattributed to Karl Ove Knausgård and Annie Dillard’s Teaching a stone to talk. Audio. Guardian.
But also an art installation by Robert Gober.
Annie Dillard, from her famous essay “To Fashion a Text.”
“When I gave up writing poetry I was very sad, for I had devoted 15 years to the study of how the structures of poems carry meaning. But I was delighted to find that nonfiction prose can also carry meaning in its structures, can tolerate all sorts of figurative language, as well as alliteration and even rhyme. The range of rhythms in prose is larger and grander than it is in poetry, and it can handle discursive ideas and plain information as well as character and story. It can do everything. I felt as though I had switched from a single reed instrument to a full orchestra.“
Statistics is the logic of uncertainty.
Joe Blitzstein, Professor of the Practice in Statistics, Harvard University, Department of Statistics.
https://www.edx.org/learn/probability/harvard-university-introduction-to-probability
Since I was going to obsess over something, I decided to give my brain jaws something hard to chew on. It choked.
https://www.youtube.com/@MindYourDecisions
Siri Wattana market.
Third time back? Always nice to know that there are still new local places to discover in Chiangmai.
Ten years later, I learn the name of this Russian poet: Anna Akhmatova.
And just for fun, here’s the poem in the original Russian.
Все мы бражники здесь, блудницы…
