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An Asian-language review of Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon thb
How many rejections have you had? [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — Comments thread of people talking about their fiction submission histories, and the relationship between rejections and sales.
The Making of a Writer, Part 1 [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — A casual exploration of my personal history.
Denon in Egypt — James Gurney on the perils of exploration. Worth reading if you write (or game) about people going down into dark, abandoned places.
Rational use of Russian bowels — Language Log with more (as ever) on the perils of mistranslation.
A Prayer for Archimedes — Some seriously cool textual history, and, palimpsests! (Thanks to
Should Auschwitz be left to decay? — A fascinating pair of editorials via the BBC. My own experience of visiting Dachau at age 18 was profound to the point of life-changing, so my instinct would be to not let the memories fade into the earth.
From Juan Cole’s blog, Jonathan Lyons takes a very long view of the relationship between the West and Islam — I suspect this essay will generate a “yeah, right” response from some American readers, but it’s worth noting that many in the Islamic world refer to us as “Crusaders”, which precisely fits this narrative. (Thank you very much to
Bush by the numbers — Just in case you still somehow think of the Bush administration as a success, a review of the government’s own numbers on job growth, income etc. (And for those of you who proudly take refuge in Bush’s record on terrorism, remember the Bin Laden memo he waved off in the summer of 2001 — the rest of us sure do — and consider that terrorism incidents worldwide have risen sharply under his watch.)
?otD: Have I told you ’bout the swans, they live in the park?
1/26/2009
Body movement: 40 minute ride on the stationary bike
This morning’s weigh-in: 221.8
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
Posted: 5:33 am Mon January 26 2009 |
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January 26th, 2009 at 6:18 am[...] Brilliant book on the explorations of ruins. Great stuff for those who wish to write about places that have sunken into history, and lost for centuries in the shrouded mist that is the collective memory of humankind.[snurched from Jay Lake] [...]
Jaws
January 26th, 2009 at 7:41 amYou shouldn’t be worrying about the swans in the park at the moment. Given your collaboration project, you should instead be wondering whether you’ve got Ulysses tied to the mast…
Jay
January 26th, 2009 at 7:44 am@2 – Well, his naked ears *were* tortured…
ethar
January 26th, 2009 at 6:38 pmThat’s a Korean review of Escapement. Thank you
I’m hoping that some publisher contacts you for Korean translation, since I enjoyed your books.
Jay
January 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pm@4: Oh, cool! Yeah, that would be pretty neat to be in Korean.
tetar
January 26th, 2009 at 8:43 pmLetting Auschwitz decay is tantamount to forgetting, and without continual reminders of how bad people and situations involving them can get, the worst will continue to bob to the surface.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
It was precisely forgetting that allowed the neo con Nazi scum to impose fascism on what was once, and may with luck be again, USA.