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This is my favorite sentence in awhile. It’s from a short fiction piece titled All That by David Foster Wallace. A tad long to be learnt by heart, and so I love it none the less:
•Sometimes the experience of the voices was ecstatic, sometimes so much so that it was almost too intense for me—as when you first bite into an apple or a confection that tastes so delicious and causes such a flood of oral juices that there is a moment of intense pain in your mouth and glands—particularly in the late afternoons of spring and summer, when the sunlight on sunny days achieved moments of immanence and became the color of beaten gold and was itself (the light, as if it were taste) so delicious that it was almost too much to stand, and I would lie on the pile of large pillows in our living room and roll back and forth in an agony of delight and tell my mother, who always read on the couch, that I felt so good and full and ecstatic that I could hardly bear it, and I remember her pursing her lips, trying not to laugh, and saying in the driest possible voice that she found it hard to feel too much sympathy or concern for this problem and was confident that I could survive this level of ecstasy, and that I probably didn’t need to be rushed to the emergency room, and at such moments my love and affection for my mother’s dry humor and love became, stacked atop the original ecstasy, so intense that I almost had to stifle a scream of pleasure as I rolled ecstatically between the pillows and the books on the floor.
Amusing ourselves to Death: Aldous Huxley’ tomorrow vs George Orwell tomorrow. Yay for comic format. •
Like for many, perfume (like many things olfactive) holds the status of mystery to me; and in a sense, I have never really gotten it, simply holding on and nurturing a signature smell throughout these years. As I was shopping for a new fragrance last year, I was struck by what I was seeing and scenting: the wide array of cheapness repulsed me, you could sniff the marketing machine behind each bottle, nothing seem to smell true and worth my money. I left it at that, hoping to read more about it, learning where the true ideas and smells are.
Evidently, with that in mind, I’m glad to stumble upon things like this: Chandler Burr’s, NY Times perfume critic, Ten Favorite Fragrances.
•Pour Joanie: le merveilleux travail d’illustration qui fait rêver de la montréalaise Isabelle Arsenault. Illustratrice et même maintenant auteure de livres pour enfants, elle était finaliste pour l’honorable prix litteraire du Gouverneur Général en 2008. •
I recently wrote two articles for internet famous Contemporary Design blog MocoLoco. Firstly, a review of this year’s Environment Design grad show at UQAM which featured many very interesting object-design projects; and secondly, an article on South-Korean designer Kwangho Lee’s work showcased at Montreal’s design boutique/gallery Commissaire. Journalism and writing in english are fun! •
Penguin books is presenting We Tell Stories, a series of six stories inspired by six classics novels wrote by six contemporary authors, each with a digital twist in the storytelling. Week 1: Charles Cumming’s writes The 21 Steps, a detective story told with google maps. Week 2: Toby Litt writes Slice, teenage horror via 2 blogs & twitter, giving it its sense of realism. Week 3, interactive fairy tale writing with Kevin Brooks. 3 more to come. •
Pour Catherine et tout intéressé au développement particulier de la langue française d’icitte: en quoi se caractérise le français du Québec. J’adore le qualificatif vivant désignant l’utilisation courante d’un mot dans une langue, ou d’un champ spécifique de celle-ci. Il dénote cette perception organique et évolutive de la langue parmi ses locuteurs: il existe parce qu’il est employé, existant officiellement aurpès de l’office ou non. Je suis parlé, donc je suis. (Merci Papa) •
Data-visualization lovers: Looking at the bible as a very rich gathering of cross-references, names and places and visually displaying all these connections. I can not think of any other book that would display such a list of different people and places that cross-reference through its entire scope. •
Jf et Ironica, vous allez l’aimer celle là: Le bloye à Jacques Demers. Des calembours d’analphabète. Trop hot. •
Kottke made a nice review of Ratatouille’s very convincing realism. “I’m not quite sure how this is possible, but the people in Ratatouille acted more like real people than the actors in many recent live action movies”. He even later quotes Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building. I myself haven’t seen the movie yet (I’m more of a DVD rental guy), but has anybody else felt this way the movie? •
Onesentence.org is true stories told in one sentence. If I meet somebody who has been working on a project for some time and I feel they are kind of sick of telling people about it (and thus don’t really feel like getting into explaining the whole thing) I always ask them to simply explain it in one sentence, no more. Challenging them to a concise yet full and direct explanation always seem to get them started and interested in talking about it. •