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/////////////If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
~ Kingsley Amis



//////////////////The secret of good writing is to say an old thin in new way or to say a new thing an old way.
~ Richard Harding Davis




/////////////////////Writing is a struggle against silence.
~ Carlos Fuentes




////////////////MUSIC BREAKS TYRANNY OF STREAMING CONSCIOUSNESS

WRITING OR READING BREAKS TYRANNY OF SILENCE




//////////////AUTOPEOTOMY
But not from the two old ladies. They remained quite impassive, thinking. I could see the lexicographical gears grinding in their minds. Then suddenly, and in unison I swear, they spoke: "Autopeotomy!" they cried. Then one to the other: "Yes, Mildred - peotomy is the amputation of the penis. But doing it yourself - that must be autopeotomy. A neologism, I am sure. And Mr Winchester, if you can include this new word in an illustrative sentence in the book you are writing, then we will include it in the next edition of the OED, and you'll be a small part of history."

And so I did, and it duly was and I duly am, and there autopeotomy lies for ever, part of the glittering marvels that make up the English language and which, on Wednesday, is set to celebrate the creation of its one millionth word, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Texas-based association of academics that tracks the use of new words.




//////////////////The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay





////////////////// Depending on the problem, media may be an escape or a way to cope

The last thing most people in a bad love affair want to do is to read informational articles about romance. But people facing financial difficulties often choose to read articles which may help them cope with their money problems. Those are some of the findings of a new study that aimed to discover whether people use the news media to escape from their problems or find information on how to cope with them.




////////////////// Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

HEMIGWAY




////////////////////1963:

Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to
death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by South
Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.




//////////////////Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well,
are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
--Ben Jonson




////////////////////productive stupidity=Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time. No doubt, this can be difficult for students who are accustomed to getting the answers right. No doubt, reasonable levels of confidence and emotional resilience help, but I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries.




/////////////////POETIC LICENCE



///////////////////NMRLGY=3

Positive Traits: adaptable, resilient, charismatic,
communicative, persuasive
Negative Traits: cynicism, irresponsibility, superficiality,
overbearing, promiscuity





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