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RIP, Leonard Cohen. David Remnick’s recent New Yorker profile was so well done I had it on my list of links to share well before Cohen’s passing. The song ►”You Want it Darker” has been running non-stop in my head since I heard the news. And if you haven’t read it, Cohen’s novel Beautiful Losers is bizarre, hilarious and seductive.
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From Merriam-Webster, Trending Words from Election 2016.
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“How many ways are there to read James Joyce’s great and bizarre novel Finnegans Wake? ¶ To answer this question, we gathered a host of musicians and writers, artists and scholars, weirdos and generally adventurous people. We decided to set the book to music, creating something that is simultaneously an audiobook as well as musical adaptation.” → Waywords and Meansigns: Recreating Finnegans Wake in its Whole Wholume. [Thanks, Reader A.!]
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“The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as we believed it to be.” → A short trailer for the book.
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Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses. [Thanks, Reader S.!]
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“What makes swear words so offensive? It’s not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?” → Naughty Words
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List: Fall DIY Projects That Help Numb the Pain of Existence
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►Two sonic branding experts explain the thinking behind some of the world’s most recognizable sounds
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Eggsactly, eggsciting, eggscetera. → eggsconcept
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Today is World Kindness Day. Please consider celebrating it. A bit of language history: the word kind comes from Middle English kinde, from Old English (ge)cynde, which speaks to “the feeling of relatives for each other.”