Tag: life
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Clupdates
Hello Journal, Progress feels less slow upon reviewing the evidence: my three baby clubs are growing!
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Gift of Music, a Vinyl Swap Club
“Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained,…
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Entropy as Uniformity; or the Decay of Individuality
Imagine there are two mugs of coffee: one piping hot and the other stone cold. Unfortunately, the brewer forgets their newly-made drink: it is now as cold as the other. That is, the two objects became more similar. Place the coffees in identical mugs – is there really much perceptibly separating them? Thus, a definition:…
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Empathy for a Chance at Redemption
I had once heard that since it is easy to have empathy for people we like, the point of empathy is to have it for people we don’t. Though I agree with this and it was recently prominent in my mind, I now realize that the point of empathy is also to foster redemption. Following…
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The Color of Art
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. This instruction suggests that one ought to participate in an environment’s modus operandi. For example, find yourself in Portland? Drink coffee and ride a bike (though maybe not simultaneously). I like this expression and employ it regularly, though I’ve since debased it to the point of being…
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The Old Woman
Prompt: Write two versions of the same story, narrating back and forth between a ‘now’ scene and a ‘then’ scene. Version A should be in first person or third person, version B should be in the other. Version A should be all in present tense, all in past tense, or ‘now’ in present tense with…
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A Roadmap to Fairyland: an “On Fairy-Stories” Analysis
The road to Faërie is a perilous one. For starters, the realm itself is indescribable (though not imperceptible). If we are to commit to this journey, “we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.” While in early development of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote an essay titled On Fairy-Stories in which…
The AM Intrigue 