rhopalic /rə-PAL-ik/. noun or adjective. A sequence in which each word has one more letter or syllable than the one before it. From Latin rhopalicus > from Greek rhopalos (a tapered club).
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Links: April 30, 2017
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This week in weird Wikipedia → Category:Vehicle wreck ballads (it feels like there should be more of them) :: pairs well with the List of car crash songs
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Something to add to your arguments about books vs ebooks and Amazon vs publishers → Amazon expands its literary horizons, making big imprint in translation niche
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An oldie but a goodie → “Toto’s ‘Africa'” by Ernest Hemingway
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A contrasting photographic diptych → Jessica Weiser’s ‘Freckle Project’ (in black & white) and Colourised Pics Of Russia’s Female Snipers
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If you don’t know Zardulu, you should..and probably do without knowing it → Meet Zardulu, the “art villain” behind the latest viral video :: pairs with well with ► Reply All #56 – Zardulu
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An interesting essay by an art critic who returns to—or tries to return to—actually being an artist → Jerry Saltz: My Life As a Failed Artist
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The American Shakespeare Center has never shied away from interpretations of the Bard’s work…now they are offering thirty-eight \$25,000 prizes for plays that “vibe off of and are inspired by Shakespeare’s work” → You could win $25,000 for your Shakespeare fanfic [Thanks, Reader C.]
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A trio of readings about artificial intelligence that should be considered together, probably in this order → Artificial Intelligence Tech Will Arrive in Three Waves + Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand + The Myth of a Superhuman AI
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Today is Email Debt Forgiveness Day, where you can send, “without apologies or explanation,” that email you’ve anxiously been avoiding. I suspect even the most ardent Inbox Zero-ists in the Clamor have an email or three they’ve been dreading sending.
Luna Lee’s “Lithium”
Luna Lee covers a lot of songs on the gayageum (an instrument that is awesome and hard to describe)…but ► her version of Nirvana’s “Lithium” is my favorite.
12 Strikes in 90 Seconds
Sports aren’t a big thing in Katexic Clippings, but ► bowling twelve strikes in a row in under 90 seconds!?. Plus, any sport in which one can play as well as one’s friends without putting down one’s beer and cigarette is in its own category.
from Speak, Memory (Vladimir Nabokov)
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour). I know, however, of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking for the first time at homemade movies that had been taken a few weeks before his birth. He saw a world that was practically unchanged-the same house, the same people- and then realized that he did not exist there at all and that nobody mourned his absence. He caught a glimpse of his mother waving from an upstairs window, and that unfamiliar gesture disturbed him, as if it were some mysterious farewell. But what particularly frightened him was the sight of a brand-new baby carriage standing there on the porch, with the smug, encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated.
—Vladimir Nabokov
—from Speak, Memory
intromission
intromission /in-troh-MISH-ən/. noun. Generally, the act of introducing, inserting or entering. Specifically, the very first moment of sexual intercourse. In (Scots) law, to assume the authority to deal with another’s property either with permission (legal intromission) or without (vicious intermission). From Latin intrō (inward) + missum (to send). ¶ See also: adosculation (impregnation by external contact, sans intromission) of which the 1753 Chambers Cyclopedia notes, “divers kinds of birds and fishes are also impregnated by adosculation.” Also?
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Links: April 23, 2017
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From Colgate Lasagne to Crystal Pepsi: visit the Museum of Failure :: See also, the Museum of Failure site.
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When I’m not actually having to listen to the tampering, disabling and destroying of words, I find the language of air travel fascinating. → How to Speak Airline: A Glossary For Travelers
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The long, sad, maddening take of Google Books and what might have been. → Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria :: And if that isn’t enough, pairs well with How Google Book Search Got Lost.
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Access a database of 70,000 books banned around the world going back to 1575
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Literature is built on lone and level sands… → Is Snapchat the sign of a post-literary future?
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Easy to read…not necessarily so easy to do. But still. → Mindfulness in Plain English
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“…explore collections of music, dance, and speech from almost every corner of the globe, recorded by hundreds of pioneering ethnographers” organized by geography or culture. → The Global Jukebox :: Speaking of global exploration, The Google giveth and The Google taketh away…the new Google Earth is amazing.
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Take a moment to marvel at Jordan Matters’ Tiny Dancers Among Us photos.
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Today is English Language Day at the United Nations, celebrating one of the six official UN languages and the “lingua franca of the modern era.” April 23 was chosen because it is, as Clamorites probably know, the day chosen to commemorate William Shakespeare’s birth (and death). If nothing else, it’s a good day to bovver yourself a little to appreciate the beautiful weirdness of English or worry over its place in academia, etc. How will you celebrate?
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