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About Landemic
One of the first virtual land projects
In 2019, I founded and sold Landemic, an early pioneer of virtual land. On our marketplace, you could buy tiles from a map of the Earth, where each tile covered approximately 275 x 275 m² or about the size of an acre. The most expensive tile sold was the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which sold for $65,000. Most people would buy their homes, work addresses, or favorite landmarks. But many people used Landemic for speculation, thus sparking a land rush.
Screenshot of our marketplace
What's so special about these tiles? Glad you asked:
I copied the following from our former promotional materials, so I haven't changed words from present tense to past tense.
1. The "Google Effect"
Landemic is riding on the coattails of the best-kept secret in navigation: Google Plus Codes. Plus Codes are a new location standard that Google is promoting on every Maps search. The codes are meant to be a human-friendly substitute for latitude and longitude. They are 8-digit, alphanumeric codes, such as 87G8P2C2+, and they each represent a 275 x 275 m² patch of Earth. Consider them like IP addresses for location. Google has made Plus Codes standard on every Google Maps query as of 2018, and they are attempting to get ahead of the upcoming standard war for grid systems.
2. Informational Pricing
We expect signaling to increase the perceived value of "hot" properties. There is a story of a professor in Southern California who gave their students play money to bid on plots of land. These students had no real estate backgrounds, and yet the prices of their bids neatly correlated with the USD/ft² of the underlying assets.
Likewise, with Landemic, we expect players to buy and sell tiles of land based on how much interest they assign to those real-world locations. For example, we expect "ocean-front" properties on Landemic to be in high demand.
3. "Paint Your Pixel"
We expect players to want to leave their mark on the Landemic Map. Each tile is colored according to the last six digits of your wallet, and thus the entire map will look much like the Million Dollar Home Page, Pixel Master, or Reddit's Place. In all three projects, players painted single pixels that eventually added up to a rich fabric of self-expression and self-promotion:
Landemic tokens are ERC-721-compatible contracts on Ethereum. When you buy a Landemic token, you are buying an 8-character Google Plus Code which represents a rectangle of land on Earth. Your code entitles you to a space roughly the size of a city block on the Landemic Map. From there you can buy and sell tiles as well as earn bounties from other players. For example, this Plus Code represents the Empire State Building:
Contract Mechanics
In addition to standard ERC-721 functions, the Landemic contract has some extra features to make for a lively marketplace:
Initial Price: Tiles have an initial price of $0.01, denominated in ether. The proceeds from the sale of these tiles go to the developers of Landemic. We reserve the right to change this initial price in the future based on market demand or the price fluctuations of ether.
Automatic resales: Because the goal of Landemic is to keep an active, informational marketplace, we want to avoid a situation where tiles remaining dormant because the owner lost their wallet. As a result, every tile on Landemic is automatically resellable on the Landemic Map, according to the resale multiple.
Resale Multiple: The resale multiple sets a range for what Landemic tiles can be resold for. The default is 10 times the last price it was purchased for on Landemic. Note: the multiple does not take into account purchase prices outside on 3rd-party marketplaces. The highest multiple is 100 times, and the lowest is one-tenth. We assume most people will not change the default, and we set it to 10 to provide a reasonable consolation should someone return to Landemic and discover they no longer own their tiles.
Marketplace Commission: While the standard way to buy and sell ERC-721 tokens is to use marketplaces, such as OpenSea or Rare Bits, the recommended method is through our 1st-party marketplace, the Landemic Map, so that you can take advantage of the higher liquidity. 5% of the sale price for existing tiles goes to the developer, and 5% goes to each of the owners of the neighboring tiles, for a possible total of 25% in commissions.
Appendix A: Tile Specification
For an overview of the Plus Code addressing system, visit the Plus Codes website. For a detailed description, visit the Wikipedia entry on the synonymous Open Location Code.
Landemic tiles are limited to just the first 8 characters and the plus sign of a Plus Code:
The first decision on the Landemic format was between a fixed code length or letting users choose tiles of any size. We chose a fixed code length to streamline the interface. If our goal is to provide provable scarcity, then tiles should not overlap with other tiles. Furthermore, viewing tile ownerships of differing sizes would require different zoom levels, which would break the simplicity of having one map to view all tiles.
The second decision was on the code length. 8 characters is a city-block-sized unit. For example, the block that contains the Empire State Building is between 100% and 50% the area of the 8-character Plus Code that covers it. Choosing this tile size makes it satisfying to purchase popular attractions with one tile.
If tiles are too small, and if we are sticking with the principle of "one tile, one token", then it requires too much Ethereum gas to acquire a meaningful portion of territory. If the tiles are too large, then the prices become less informational.
The 8-character code length means that Manhattan is roughly comprised of 800 tiles, the United States 130 million, and the world 25.6 billion. If you take the top 125 cities by population and combine their land area, you get 194,954 km², or roughly 2.6 million tiles.
The characters of Plus Codes are written in base 20:
Each tile is one ERC-721 token. The ID of the token is a 256-bit, unsigned integer, but we are only concerned with using the first 9 bytes (72 bits). The 9 bytes are used for the ASCII-representation of each of the base 20 digits, in upper-case, in addition to the plus sign.
Appendix B: History of Grid-based Addressing Systems
In 2013, what3words released an addressing system that was an attempt to assign "IP addresses" to real-world locations. Every 3m x 3m square of land received a unique three-word name. For example, the room or desk where you're reading this article now has an address like dragon.luck.soap. The addressing system is now being used to deliver packages with drones to rural areas and to help identify the location of refugee settlements in Uganda.
Fast-forward to 2018, and the world hadn't switched from street addresses to what3words. Enter Google. Last year, Google soft-launched a new grid system, Open Location Code (a.k.a. Plus Codes), to all of Google Maps. Now, whenever you open Google Maps, you'll see not only street addresses but a short, alphanumeric string representing that location:
Why is Google doing this? Currently, there are no killer apps based on Plus Codes, but it seems that Google would rather win the standard war before an alternative grid-system, like what3words, gets off the ground. Because of the widespread adoption of Google Maps, Google's move means we're all going to Plus Codes, for better or worse. Fortunately, Google made Plus Codes non-proprietary, meaning developers like us can make all sorts of apps based on it.
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The Engineer and the Manager - Received this funny (dare I say insightful) piece in an email recently. It compares an engineer and a manager, and involves a hot air balloon.
Could you substitute "engineer and manager" with "husband and wife," "father and son," or "Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell"?
You decide...
The Engineer and the Manager
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man below says: "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude."
"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.
"The man below says, "You must be a manager."
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."
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Summary: Who doesn't love Tuscan food?! This is an homage to that region and the simple beauty of good Italian pasta.
In a stockpot (I use a 4-quart for two people), heat water and a generous dash of kosher salt to a boil.
Meanwhile, in a 10″ skillet, heat 2 tablespoons (or a nice pour) extra virgin olive oil over medium heat. Add onion slices and stir to coat. After 2 minutes, add garlic slivers and stir. Sprinkle very generously with kosher salt. Reduce heat to medium-low.
In a small skillet, toast fennel seeds. When toasted and cool, grind into the quarter-cup of olive oil, and let sit.
To the large skillet with the onions/garlic, add the preserved lemon and stir. After 1 minute, add sausage. Stir and cook, browning over your low heat.
Check your pasta water, drink some wine.
When the sausage is almost cooked, add the radicchio and kale. Stir until wilted, cover and reduce heat to low.
Your water should be boiling now. Cook your pasta. 2 minutes (or so) before it should be done, scoop out 1 cup of the cooking water and set aside. Drain pasta.
In the pasta pot, put the drained pasta, the greens mixture, a bit of the reserved cooking water, and the Mascarpone. Stir over medium heat until the water is absorbed and the Mascarpone is incorporated, adding more salt and/or cooking water as needed per your taste and desired sauciness.
When done, dump into a serving bowl and drizzle generously with the toasted fennel oil that's been sitting around getting yummy. Shaving Pecorino or Parmesan on top now is NOT a bad idea.
Drink some more wine, love this pasta.


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Q: Installing Qt not working Is Qt still free? When i try to download it, it keeps asking to buy it and credit card number... After some time I managed to find free download at

but when I try to install, it just stucks around 50%, after 10 minutes I canceled download.
I don't understand, is it free or do I have to buy it?

A: Qt is released according to a multi-licensing model. You can freely use it keeping your code proprietary as long as you respect the LGPL license:

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*You do not modify the code of the Qt libraries

*You dynamically link the library (i.e. no static linking)

*You give people who will receive the binary under any form the possibility of re-linking your (commercial) object file to a different version of Qt. In practice, this means that you have to provide your object file and the instructions/tools for linking.

*In case of Qt components under LGPLv3 you have some additional constraints with respect to LGPLv2. The most important is that you cannot use "tivoization" (hardware techniques that prevent the user from running the new binary resulting from re-linking as above).

A: It is still free, but when you open the installer, Qt will ask for a Login or asks you to Sign-up. However, there is a "Skip" button below that you can use.
Sometimes, the online-installer may have trouble downloading all files, that is probably just a one-time issue. You can also download the offline-installers, the latest you can find at: https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/#section-2
The online-installer however comes with a "Maintenance Tool" which can easily update existing Qt software to newer version (e.g. update 5.6 to 5.6.1 when it is released). Download-problems aside, I personally prefer the online-installer.

A: I've been having this one-time issues for 3 weeks nows. The online installer takes hours to complete, if at all. As Frank mentioned check at https://download.qt.io/archive/qt/ which seems to offer the offline packages. I'll see if that works.

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One (Half) Step at a Time: Using Bar Chords to Transpose
By James Hill
Repetition is one of the keys to learning. Varied repetition is one of the keys to teaching. Transposition is an important skill that will add variation and excitement to your arrangements both in rehearsal and in performance.
Click here to read this article in D6 tuning (a, d, f#, b).
Transposing the C and F chords
Climbing to the upper reaches of the fretboard is like climbing a ladder: it works best if you take it one step at a time. Using bar chords to transpose is a safe way to begin moving out of the "home position" and also gives the teacher a way of adding variation and excitement to arrangements, rehearsals, and performances.
Take Alabama Bound, for instance (the free arrangement in this issue). It's a two-chord song in the key of C that uses only the I chord (C) and the IV chord (F). Once students can play the song as written, challenge them to start moving up the fretboard. Here's how to do it:
Re-finger. Have students play the C chord with the left-hand pinky finger (instead of the usual ring finger).
Move up and bar. Now move the pinky finger up one fret and "bar" the first fret with the index finger. In other words, place the first finger straight across all four strings at the first fret.
What's the chord? Ask students: "This isn't a C chord anymore, is it? So, what chord is it?" The answer is C#. Move it up another fret to get a D chord, and so on.
Repeat this process to transpose the F chord. Now your students can play Alabama Bound in every key!
Adding a transition chord
Add a transition chord to move more smoothly into each new key. The transition chord should be the dominant chord (V) of the new key. For example, if you're playing Alabama Bound in the key of C# (using the C# and F# chords) and you're moving to the key of D on the repeat, use an A or an A7 chord to make a smooth transition.
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[Peter M.] Brant could have launched with a legacy show of his own trophy holdings, but he says the space's proximity to Basquiat's former stomping grounds compelled him to devote the opener to the neo-expressionist painter. Basquiat's frenetic, poetic paintings of 1980s New York are getting more attention lately from both museums and the marketplace, with pieces selling at auction for as much as $110.5 million. That record-holder, an untitled skull painting from 1982 that's owned by Japanese e-retailer Yusaku Maezawa, is in Brant's show.
Other heavyweights include 1987's Unbreakable, which has never been exhibited in New York, and 1983's Hollywood Africans, which was lent by the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Half of the show's roughly 70 pieces have also come directly from a Basquiat survey that recently drew nearly 680,000 visitors to Paris's Louis Vuitton Foundation. These works will now be intermingled with 16 pieces from the Brant foundation as well as loans from other collectors like Dan Loeb, John Phelan, Eli Broad and Dimitri Mavrommatis.
The Foundation says 50,000 people have already signed up online to get free tickets. The show runs through May 15.
A formidable new arts space opening in the East Village is cause for celebration. But what happens after the Basquiat show comes down? If the foundation becomes a repository for blue-chip art and big names, for showing off trophies acquired over a lifetime of collecting, that would be a painful development for the cultural life of this city. New York already has plenty of spaces to see such things. Instead, my hope — as I wrote back in 2014 — is that the Brant Foundation and its brethren will be willing to experiment, and to partner with other local organizations, serving as a forum for art and artists and ideas that have not been welcomed elsewhere.
It's so nice of this guy to do this. Security + production fees is super expensive. Free tix!
Hopefully it begins a stirring of interests in the arts in our community. Thank you Brant for doing this!
Well then, I know what I'm stealing.
So sterile inside especially compared the free Same Old Gallery which opened at Basquiat's former home/studio last year at 57 Great Jones St. One was created by a billionaire, the other by Basquiat's schoolboy friend who grew up in Jacob Riis and co-created SAMO.
Exhibit is free, so I can't complain about it. And there won't be a line. Look forward to seeing the building and the paintings. A New Yorkish experience.


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Chrissy Teigen Says She's Worried About Having Postpartum Depression Again
"Do I worry about it with this little boy? I do."
By Mehera Bonner
Chrissy Teigen has revealed that she's concerned about suffering from postpartum depression following the birth of her second child.
"Do I worry about it with this little boy? I do," she said at the Create & Cultivate conference in L.A. "But I also know that I feel like when it does happen, if it does, I'm so ready for it. I have the perfect people around me for it. That's why I really stand for a good core group of people around you."
gone for one day and already looking at old videos of her 
A post shared by chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) on Feb 24, 2018 at 8:18am PST
"I didn't know I had it," she continued. "I knew that I had an incredible life, and an incredible husband, and family, and all the resources necessary, and I knew that I was personally unhappy, but I didn't think anything was wrong with it because I just assumed that that's the way it was. You have a kid, you're sad, you lose those endorphins, and that's the way it is."
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The model/cook/host originally opened up about her struggles with postpartum back in March 2017, saying, "Most days were spent on the exact same spot on the couch and rarely would I muster up the energy to make it upstairs for bed. John would sleep on the couch with me, sometimes four nights in a row. I started keeping robes and comfy clothes in the pantry so I wouldn't have to go upstairs when John went to work. There was a lot of spontaneous crying."
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Episode Review of "Stargate SG-1" Season 6: "Full Circle"
Episode Review of Stargate SG-1 Season 6: "Full Circle"
"Full Circle" is nearly a perfect Stargate SG-1 episode. It has a great plot which hits on major points in the series, it has action, it has some humor, and best of all, it has the entire SG-1 team: O'Neill, Carter, Teal'c, Jonas, and Daniel.
The "full circle" part of the episode is apparent immediately, when the episode starts on Abydos and Daniel shows up, since Abydos is where the Stargate SG-1 series began. Apparently Anubis has found all but one of the jewels called "eyes" (such as the Eye of Tiamat which figured in Season 5's "The Tomb". When we left the Eye of Tiamat in that episode, it was buried under a collapsed ziggurat. Apparently Anubis has quite the resources to have been able to dig it out.). The Eye of Ra is hidden on Abydos; once Anubis has it, the combined power of the eyes will give him a huge advantage over all over Goa'uld and obviously make him harder for Earth and its allies to defeat. Anubis is on his way, but Daniel promises Skaara and the others that help will be forthcoming.
When Daniel appears to O'Neill to convince the SGC to help Abydos, we discover why O'Neill never mentioned Daniel's visits earlier in the season in "Abyss": he wasn't sure the visions of Daniel were real. O'Neill then conveys Daniel's information to General Hammond and the rest of SG-1. Once O'Neill reveals that the information is from Daniel, Hammond and the other members of SG-1 don't even question it. This is a wonderful demonstration of the trust between them and even of the ascended Daniel. Hammond gives SG-1 a "go" to assist Abydos.
SG-1's return to Abydos and their reunion with the people and, in particular, Skaara, is poignant. As far as we know, this is the first time O'Neill and Skaara have seen each other since Skaara was freed from his Goa'uld in season 3's "Pretense". At first, I thought that this was uncharacteristic and unlikely, but then I thought about how often I contact friends in other states (let alone other planets) and realized it's probably pretty realistic. We find out that Skaara is getting married.
Jonas and Carter start looking for the Eye of Ra, but there are so many places to look in the chambers under Ra's pyramid, they are at a loss. Anubis is expected to arrive at any moment; O'Neill knows that Daniel is observing them, and he eventually loses his patience and demands that Daniel show himself and help them. The difficulty is that according to the "rules" of the ascended beings, Daniel is not allowed to do anything to help or hinder corporeal beings. (We first learned about these rules in season 5's Ascension, with the ascended being, Orlin.) However, with the situation as desperate as it is, O'Neill cannot consider long-term effects and insists that Daniel cross the line and help them.
Daniel, Carter, and Jonas together quickly find the hidden chamber of Ra. It's a nice touch to see Jonas pull out equipment of Daniel's that he took and to see Daniel realize it; how often could that kind of situation come up? When they search the hidden chamber for the eye, Daniel spies a complex message on a stone tablet. Upon reading it, he comes to a major revelation for the entire series: the beings that ascended before him (such as Oma Desala) are the Ancients, who originally built the stargate system. Thousands of years ago (around the time of the freezing of Ayiana in "Frozen" earlier this season), the Ancients were suffering from an epidemic (presumably the same disease that ultimately killed Ayiana). Some of the Ancients figured out how to ascend, and the rest died.
However, there must be more to this story than is revealed here. First, it's hard for me to believe that the Ancients could not find a medical solution to the disease; besides the fact that their technology was very advanced, apparently at least some of them had healing power like Ayiana did. In addition, wouldn't the Asgard, the Nox, or the Furlings, allies of the Ancients, have been able to come up with a cure? Instead, the Asgard simply said that the Ancients had gone away, which is curious.
Another question is whether or not the Ancients were the first ascended beings. Did anyone help any of the Ancients ascend, or did they figure it out for themselves? As I write this, the series is in season 10 and Earth has encountered the Ori, which provides more of the history of ascended beings.
After Daniel's revelation, he goes to confront Anubis and vows to stop Anubis from destroying Abydos. Anubis reveals that he is also an ascended being, at least partly. Daniel isn't really sure how this is possible, but he deduces that Anubis (as a Goa'uld) figured out how to ascend, but when he got to the "higher plane of existence", the other ascended beings tried to send him back. They were not completely successful, so Anubis still has some of the powers of an ascended being. Anubis's dual nature explains how he has uncovered so much advanced and unknown technology and has so much knowledge of the Ancients.
Daniel makes a deal with Anubis: Anubis will get the Eye of Ra, and in exchange he will allow SG-1 to leave safely and he will not harm Abydos.
Meanwhile, Carter and Jonas have found the Eye of Ra. (I loved Carter shooting out the wall - a sign of the desperation of events.) Anubis's forces have attacked and overwhelmed SG-1 and the people of Abydos so that they have all fallen back to a single chamber within the pyramid. They are in a stand-off: they have threatened to destroy the Eye, while Anubis's First Prime, Herak, has them surrounded. O'Neill derives some black humor from needling Herak, whom he met earlier in the season in "The Other Guys". However, Skaara has been fatally wounded during the attack; he dies and visibly ascends.
Daniel returns and informs O'Neill of the deal, and also reveals that it was Oma Desala who helped Skaara ascend, not him. After Daniel's assurances that he will disobey the rules of the ascended and enforce Anubis's end of the deal, O'Neill reluctantly gives the Eye of Ra to Herak. Anubis's forces leave the planet.
When Anubis receives the Eye of Ra, he cackles that his ship is now fully "armed and operational", er, that is, fully powered. He decides to destroy Abydos anyway. Daniel returns to counter him, but then about a dozen ships arrive from the System Lords, led by Lord Yu. The System Lords don't want Anubis to have the Eye of Ra, either, and they surround Anubis and demand that he surrender the Eye of Ra. However, apparently the System Lords don't realize that space is three-dimensional, and they surround Anubis's ship in a two-dimensional plane. Conveniently, Anubis's ship fires in a two-dimensional star shape, so he easily defeats the System Lords. Just think - if the System Lords had put some ships "above" and "below" Anubis's ship, the battle might have turned out completely differently.
Anubis then proceeds with his plan to destroy Abydos. Daniel begins to "power up" to stop him, but before he can attack, he is whisked away by another ascended being, presumably Oma Desala. Anubis is free to attack with impunity, and destroys the pyramid and its surroundings in Abydos in a spectacular effects sequence. Fortunately for SG-1, they have just returned to Earth, although they realize an attack has occurred.
After some time, the SGC is able to re-dial Abydos with the stargate, and SG-1 returns. They find everything eerily perfect and unharmed, including all of the people, even Skaara. Skaara reveals that Oma Desala enabled all of the villagers to ascend when Anubis's attack killed them. They have re-created the surroundings and the stargate so that SG-1 could return and see that the people are safe; however, once SG-1 leaves, they will never see the Abydos people again.
This episode does not end on a cliffhanger, but many issues are unresolved. Anubis is still at large with his special powers and now his supercharged ship (because he has all of the Eyes). Daniel's status is unknown because he violated the rules of the ascended beings. But there is some hope - Daniel told Jonas and Carter to save the stone tablet because it also told about a "lost city" of the ancients that would provide them with some huge advantage over Anubis. However, the tablet must still be translated, the city's location is unknown, and it's not clear any more than Daniel will be able to help them.
The dual revelations of the Ancients being the ascended entities and Anubis being part-ascended really take the situation in this episode to a much more important level. These two issues are really interwoven. Previously, we had seen the ascended beings as wiser entities, and we pretty much understood and accepted their "prime directive" of not interfering with what corporeal humans do. However, now we know that humans (in the form of the Ancients) were actually able to get themselves to ascend, showing that ascended beings are not necessarily superior to present day humans. In addition, it's clear that the ascended beings have really dropped the ball when it comes to Anubis.
If the ascended beings wanted to kick Anubis out of their ranks, they needed to do so completely - after all, we have seen an ascended being become completely human in the form of Orlin in season 5's Ascension. Was the failure with Anubis because he didn't want to go back? Now the fact that he is so powerful as a part-corporeal being is their responsibility. Morally, they should no longer adhere to their non-interference policy, since they are directly responsible for turning Anubis loose. However, how could any corporeal human actually communicate with one of the ascended beings and actually convince them of this? This seems like a major issue for the next season.
Some other issues, in no particular order. The parallels with Star Wars: Return of the Jedi when Daniel and Anubis confront each other are amusing. Since both of them have gotten to their positions (plot-wise) fairly naturally, I think the parallels are OK. However, the continuing parallels in season 7 start to feel like a rip-off.
It's nice to see the interaction between Daniel and his former teammates. The conversations between Daniel and O'Neill nearly crackle. When Daniel first shows up in the elevator, he is almost bursting with his urgent message, but then you can see him calm himself down and play out the scene O'Neill wants, because he knows O'Neill's character so well. Later on, when Daniel is working with Carter and Jonas, the three fit together well as a team.
Another amusing scene is when O'Neill reveals that he has seen Daniel before, and then Teal'c admits that he had, too. Their "why didn't you tell me" attitudes are very appropriate to them. They don't really realize that Daniel had purposely only visited them during times when they would dismiss the meetings as imaginary.
The assault by Anubis's forces on the pyramid on Abydos was impressive. Clearly Anubis wasn't pulling any punches and quickly overwhelmed the defenders. I thought it was clever for him to attack the gateroom in the pyramid with Jaffa on foot, Jaffa sent in via the rings, and to also activate the stargate. Talk about an assault on multiple fronts! When Skaara is injured in the assault, you can see O'Neill kick into a higher gear to get to his side, unfortunately to no good effect.
Daniel showed dubious judgment in striking a deal with Anubis. However, I realized that he was trying to avoid breaking the rules of the ascended. If Anubis went through with the deal, then Daniel hadn't seriously broken any rules, which is what he was hoping for; but if Anubis betrayed him, then Daniel would have to make a major "infraction" by stopping him. Daniel was gambling, and he lost. However, he did at least ensure that SG-1 would escape with the table about the lost city.


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Feast of the Ascension: God in the "in betweens"
It has been said that as Christians we are always, "aliens in a foreign land." We might look the same as others, we might talk the same, we might act the same but as Christians we are never fully at home in this world. Our souls will always be, in this life, to some extent or another, "restless". At some level we know that our true home still awaits us. As Christians we do not disdain the world nor do we see it as evil. The opposite, in fact, is the case – we value the world, we marvel at its beauty but we view it within the fuller horizon of the love, truth and hope that we have come to know in Jesus Christ. What we have come to know in Christ affects everything – even how we judge our place in the world.
This must have been especially true for those first disciples. They knew Christ. They had spent time with him. They experienced the resurrection. And now, we are told, they watched him ascend into heaven but things are now different – they cannot go back to the way it was before – it can never be the same. As Christ ascends, they stand in between the earthly ministry and presence of Jesus and the promised fullness of the Kingdom.
"Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking up at the sky?" In other words, the angels are reminding the disciples even as they stand in between, "Remember, you are in this world and there is work to be done," but, they also say, "This Jesus who has been taken up from you … will return in the same way…" but, "keep your eyes on heaven." As Christians we live with our feet planted in the world but our eyes on heaven. Right now (like those first disciples) we live "in between".
As humans, we are not all that good about living "in between" – we like to be either here or there but one of the gifts of the days of Ascension – the time between Christ ascending to heaven and the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost is to teach and help us recognize that God is present even in the "in between" moments of life.
All lives have moments of "in between". The announcement of pregnancy to the birth of a child, the ending of one career to the beginning of the next, graduating from college and preparing to either enter the job market or to move forward to graduate school, the moving from one place and culture to another, the pain of losing a loved one to the acceptance of memory and hope, even the pronouncement of a terminal illness to the point of death – these are all moments when we stand "in between." Life is full of "in between" times.
Let us not assume that God is not present in the "in between" moments of life. Even if we cannot go back, even if things are different – God is still present. We have experienced the fullness of truth and love in Jesus Christ. God will remain with us even to the end of the ages and through all the in betweens. As Christians we live with our feet in this world and our eyes turned toward heaven.
Thank you, Father. My baby will be one year old tomorrow. During my pregnancy, I was also getting a divorce and my husband and his attorney were very cruel.


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Podcast: Reading Maketh a Full Man
Note: DG Myers died on Sept. 26, 2014, about 6 months after we recorded this episode. You can read my contribution to his festscrhift here.
Virtual Memories – season 4 episode 13 – Reading Maketh a Full Man,
or, "Where is the Lesbian on This List?"
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"I would take an evil delight in asking my colleagues what they were reading, and watching the look of panic on their faces. Because everyone reads scholarship now, and very few primary materials. Our academic specialties are an inch wide and a mile deep."
Literature professor and book critic DG Myers is dying of cancer, but that doesn't mean he's planning to go gentle into that good night. In a far-ranging conversation, we talk about why he believes university English departments will barely outlast him, how he made the move from Southern Baptist to Orthodox Judaism (getting recircumcised a few times along the way), what he'd like to be remembered for, why the idea of The Western Canon is a canard, which books and authors he's trying to get to before he dies, who he regrets not reading before now, and the identity of the one author he'd like to hear from. Give it a listen!
"Every Shabbos I thank Hashem for my cancer, because it has focused me on what's good and enabled me to ignore what's not."
We also talk about his plans to dispose of his library, the joys of studying under Stanley Elkin, the relation of books to moral life, the things that cease to matter in the face of a terminal diagnosis, the failure of English departments in the age of Theory, the thorny question of whether creative writing can be taught, and what writers and readers should do to save the humanities. Also, check out the list of books that came up in our conversation.
Enjoy the conversation! Then check out the archives for more great episodes! Related conversations:
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DG Myers is the author of The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880 , a work of literary scholarship. He has been a critic and literary historian for nearly a quarter of a century at Texas A&M and Ohio State universities, and was formerly the fiction critic for Commentary. He has written for Jewish Ideas Daily, the New York Times Book Review, the Weekly Standard, Philosophy and Literature, the Sewanee Review, First Things, the Daily Beast, the Barnes & Noble Review, the Journal of the History of Ideas, American Literary History, and other journals. He is working on a memoir, Life on Planet Cancer, and lives in Columbus, OH, with his wife Naomi and their four children: Dov, Saul, Isaac, and Miriam ("Mimi"). He writes at A Commonplace Blog.
Credits: This episode's music is First We Take Manhattan by Jennifer Warnes. The conversation was recorded at Prof. Myers' home on a pair of Blue enCORE 200 microphones , feeding into a Zoom H4n recorder . The intro and outro were recorded on Blue Yeti USB Microphone . Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Prof. Myers by me.
Podcast: Sound Before Story
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 5
Greg Gerke – Sound Before Story
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To celebrate the publication of Middle C , the new novel by literary legend William Gass, I sat down with writer Greg Gerke, who interviewed Gass for Tin House literary magazine. We talked about Gass' position in the postmodern literary tradition (as it were), what Greg learned over the course of reading much of Gass' writings and interviewing The Great Man, what it's like to construct a literary monument to horror, which authors Greg discovered through Gass' essays over the years, how you can't judge a man by his (roommate's) bookshelf, why Gass holds self-publishing in disdain, and how one can build a powerful literary career by putting Sound Before Story.
Enjoy the conversation! Then check out our archives for more great talks! And buy the issue of Tin House with Greg's interview with Gass, while you're at it!
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Greg Gerke's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Tin House, The Kenyon Review Online, Denver Quarterly, and Mississippi Review. He's the author of the short story collection, There's Something Wrong with Sven . You can read his work and find links to his criticism at greggerke.com and Big Other.
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"One of the pleasures of middle age — there aren't many — lies in a growing appreciation for art that is urbane and refined. To be a man of the world is, in my mind, to be a courtly, music-loving intellectual living in Vienna or Prague during the final days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It is the last glimmering of a now vanished era . . ."
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It was another wonderful reading year for me, even if I sometimes feel like I'm an ape who's trying to mimic the behavior of a cultured gentlereader. I know this isn't the mode for everyone (esp. those of you who have social lives), but I'm awfully happy I get to live this way. Last year, I chronicled all the books I finished, but used a separate post to discuss 2011's big reading project, Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement . I didn't have a major project this year, so you're going to get some commentary on everydarnbook on The List. (Speaking of . . .)
As with last year, this writeup doesn't include comics that I finished. I should note that, while I've had Chris Ware's Building Stories on my desk since late September, I've been too . . . intimidated? something else? . . . to start it. Maybe that'll be the next big read.
Meanwhile, there are more than 50 to discuss, so let's get started!
The Sun Also Rises : I had the thought last January of reading a lot of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. I may've been a little influenced by that meh Woody Allen flick, Midnight in Paris. Clearly, not as effective as the way Another Woman turned me on to Rilke, but hey. This time around, I found Hemingway's prose flatter and less effective than I recalled. Nowadays, we'd chalk it up to writing for a screenplay rather than the printed word, but I guess that wasn't a consideration back then.
The Learners : A day after that, I was wiped out with the flu. I stayed home from work and started reading The Learners, the sequel to book designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd's first novel, The Cheese Monkeys . The book follows our lead character, Happy, out of art school and into his first design job in 1961. Bizarrely enough, considering how out-of-it I must have been, I managed to read this book in a few hours. I enjoyed it, mainly for the depiction of Happy's worklife as a designer in that era (not exactly Mad Men). I wasn't as interested in the plot, centering on Stanley Milgram's authority experiments, but I'm hoping to see a third book from Kidd as Happy finds his way in the world (and figures out his sexuality, the suppression of which is a key component of this and The Cheese Monkeys).
Money: A Suicide Note: A week later, I read Martin Amis' Money, which I'd heard referred to as his greatest novel. I think London Fields trumps it, but they're both awfully good. They're also very difficult for me to recommend to people; Amis' language is like lightning (at his peak, I think his prose is up there with Nabokov's), but his characters are almost uniformly unlikeable and normal people seem to care about that. In my podcast conversation with Michael Dirda, we talked about the pleasure principle in reading and criticism. He praised Harold Brodkey's The Runaway Soul , but said it so unremitting and humorless that no one could finish it, and contrasted that with the evil wit of William Gass' The Tunnel . He made a comment about writing a book in which none of the characters were likable, and I said, "We should ask Martin Amis for tips on that." That said, it's an amazing novel, capturing the money-hungry '80s in New York and London. And it was fun to read the brothel scene that Amis researched with Christopher Hitchens (whose Hitch-22: A Memoir was the close-out to last year's post). Also, it seems like Alan Moore was cribbing from this when he wrote A Small Killing , a comic illustrated by Oscar Zarate.
Brideshead Revisited : Reading at tangents, I went from Martin Amis to Evelyn Waugh, an influence on his dad Kingsley. I read Waugh's Scoop in late 2011 (following Hitchens' recommendation) before moving on to his best-known novel, Brideshead Revisited. I had absolutely no idea what this book was about. For some reason, I thought it was going to be a very staid, mannered book. I really wasn't expecting the ebullience of Sebastian Flyte and, once introduced to him, I wasn't expecting the Catholic-Anglican conflict between the narrator and Sebastian's sister, Julia. I was happy to have so much of Anthony Powell under my belt before reading this, even though Powell's prose and story were far less unified than Waugh's.
Stories of Anton Chekhov : My first great discovery of 2012 was Chekhov's short fiction (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation). I'd apparently read Three Sisters back in my freshman year of college, probably for an acting class, but never got to Chekhov otherwise. I have so many lacunae in my reading, it's embarrassing. I devoured this collection and will likely get around to his short novels and his plays in 2013. I was floored by the intensity and vividness of his short sketches, like The Huntsman and the seriously creepy Sleepy, while the longest piece in the book, A Boring Story, is an utter masterpiece. I'm in awe of Chekhov.
Tropic of Cancer : Looking back over my list, I honestly don't remember reading this book for the bajillionth time. I'm guessing I thought it would be a good palate-cleanser, some familiarly gorgeous prose for me to fall back into after being swept up in Chekhov for 3 weeks. It's also possible I just read too darned quickly sometime. I try not to read for volume, but it happens to the best of us sometimes.
Travesties : I read Tom Stoppard's play in anticipation of seeing it performed in Princeton. We never got down there, because of work travel or some other excuse, but I was glad to read it. It's a toughie to characterize, because of the Leninist stuff, the Wildean mode, the slapstick, the dead-end of Dadaism, and more, but I was wowed by the ambition of it, and I'm a sucker for "all these famous figures happened to live in the same place at the same time, so who's to say they never overlapped?"
Metropole : I read this one on a recommendation in Bookslut. It's a forgotten novel about a linguistics professor from Hungary on his way to a conference who falls asleep, misses a connection, gets on a wrong airplane, and winds up in a strange city where he can't understand the language. I had high hopes for this novel, but it draws out the drudgery of the professor's life in a way that ground my interest into a nub. Going into it, my assumption was that the professor's experience mirrors that of everyone who travels to Hungary from the west, since their language has virtually no connection to the Indo-European language groups. I spent a full week in Hungary a few years ago and managed to pick up only 5 or 6 words in that time. Anyway, I was hoping for more of the Kafkaesque out of this novel, I suppose, but I can understand how the time in which it was written (1970, during the endless days of the Cold War) dictated the sense of hopelessness that pervades it.
Inherent Vice: A Novel : I bailed on Thomas Pynchon's last giganto-novel, Against the Day , a year or two ago. I was 50-60 pages into it and concluded that I wasn't enjoying it and would never get around to finishing it. On a whim, I picked up this shorter novel last spring at a nearbyish new/used bookstore, Well Read. I figured this would be more Crying of Lot 49 than Gravity's Rainbow . Little did I know it would be most similar to The Big Lebowski. I mean that in a good way. It's a stoner detective novel set in LA in the '60s, and the plot doesn't quite add up, but the atmosphere is what it's all about. While I was reading it, it struck me that Pynchon generally alternates his novels between "big" and "SoCal": V. (big), Crying of Lot 49 (SoCal), Gravity's Rainbow (big), Vineland (SoCal), Mason & Dixon (big), Against the Day (big), Inherent Vice (SoCal). The fact that those last two are out of sequence is clearly the sign that They're up to something . . .
Coriolanus : Two reasons to take up this one: to prepare to catch the Ralph Fiennes movie version (which I haven't seen yet), and because I was going to take a trip to Phoenix for a trade show that month and planned to see a Diamondbacks game. See, I try to keep a decent gap between the number of Shakespeare plays I've read and the number of MLB ballparks I've visited. You know how weird I am, so don't act like this surprises you. Anyway, the play was minor on the Shakespeare scale, but does help illustrate why military men don't tend to make good statesmen.
"Family Happiness ": I read Tolstoy's novella in anticipation of a St. John's College alumni seminar in NYC. Sadly, I could only attend the pre-seminar coffee hour and not the conversation itself, due to a sick dog at home, but I did get to talk with the tutor who was running the show, and she followed up afterward to tell me how it went. It's Tolstoy and it's not religious, so you know it's good. It's about the ways in which one's notions of love and romance change the longer one's in a relationship. In this case, it's a sad, 19th century version with a younger woman discovering the loss of romance as her marriage progresses. It's a recurring theme, esp. with great European writers of that era, but it's so artfully told, even in its inevitabilities, that Tolstoy makes it fresh.
The Living End : This was probably on an off-the-cuff recommendation from Harold Bloom, and was probably the book I least enjoyed in 2012. I stuck with it, violating my maxim, "life is too short for shitty novels," because it was only 130 pages of large type, but I could've given this one a pass. It starts off well, depicting the comic life of a Jewish liquor store owner before he's murdered in a hold-up. From there, it transforms into a story of how grotesquely unfair the afterlife is, how vengeful God (the scriptural God) is, and why the end of the world can't come soon enough. It was pretty relentless in its sections in hell, which is the point, I get it, but I just found it an unworthy book, especially after starting off so well. I'll try one of Stanley Elkin's other books sometime to see which part was the aberration.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness : William Styron's memoir about depression and suicidal ideation was probably not what I should've been reading in a generic hotel room in Arizona during a business trip. Turns out he was having a bad reaction to Halcion. I understand how terrible that is, but when I was having an ugly CNS reaction to an antibiotic I'd been prescribed, it only took 3-4 days for me to realize that that's what was happening and that my wife and coworkers were NOT actually trying to poison me. Either I'm more self-aware than Styron, or I spent a lot more time than he did reading about adverse events from prescription drugs.
Uncle Vanya : I thought the movie Cold Souls was terrible, but it led me to read Uncle Vanya, so I guess that's not too bad. More Chekhov, again revolving around the country life and the sense of wasting one's life in that setting. The only good scene in that Giamatti movie was when he rehearses a scene from the play after having his soul extracted, and attacks it with a joie de vivre totally inappropriate to the tragic setting. Seriously, avoid that movie, but read this play.
Solaris : This was the first Stanislaw Lem book I've read. I'd seen the Steven Soderbergh film version, and it was interesting to see how some of the book's "rules" for the mysterious apparitions were removed or softened for the sake of the drama. Ultimately, I found it a bit too frustrating, in terms of the Macguffin, but it's a beautiful piece of writing about the ineffability of experience. Just as we can't understand what Solaris is "thinking," we also fail to understand those closest to us.
Meditations : I bought Marcus Aurelius' book after seeing The Silence of the Lambs back in 1992 or thereabouts, and only got around to reading it 20 years later. There were moments when I thought, "Well, it's kinda easy to adopt Stoicism when you're the emperor of Rome and not one of its subjects or slaves," but I figured that was sour grapes. It's written as self-advice (not self-help), and not all of us are going to address the Roman senate or lead an army, but his lessons, and his general vibe about leading a good life, are pretty useful. I need to reconsider him in relation to all that Montaigne I was reading a few years ago.
Austerlitz : The only W.G. Sebald I read before this year were a few essays in On the Natural History of Destruction . I don't recall much of that reading, beyond the issue of trying to reconcile the desire for revenge against Germany after the war with leaving children to suffer. Austerlitz is the first of two Sebald novels I read in 2012. I was unprepared for his curious method of writing, that combination of compelling first-person travelogue and not-quite-documentary images, his peculiar mingling of the real and unreal. The story within the novel, which Jacques Austerlitz relates to the narrator, is haunting, in the same way that both characters haunt the Continent in the decades following the war. I bought the rest of Sebald's novels after this, but his premature death (car accident in 2001) may be the greatest literary loss of our time.
Selected Stories of Flannery O'Connor / Wise Blood (re-read): That brings me to the life-changing moment I had at the beginning of summer. I read a number of O'Connor's short stories for the 4-day Piraeus seminar at St. John's College. I wrote about the Piraeus in last year's write-up, in my entry on Wise Blood (which I re-read before the seminar). O'Connor's fiction was a grotesque revelation, and would've been reward enough, now that I can see her threads weaving through modern American fiction and storytelling, but the long weekend in Annapolis re-energized me, brought a new focus to my reading, introduced me to new friends, and reminded me of the value of The Conversation. (The stories we read for the seminar were Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Artificial N*****, Everything That Rises Must Converge, The Lame Shall Enter First, and Parker's Back. I oughtta read The Violent Bear It Away in 2013.) Check out the podcasts I recorded during that trip with David Townsend and Tom May!
Rabbit, Run : My first Updike. As I wrote on Facebook, "My big hangup was the sheer poetic beauty of the prose and how it didn't really fit with any of the characters' perspectives. That is, Rabbit wouldn't have seen the world as beautifully as the narrative describes it, but the narrative often lapses into the limited perspectives of its characters. It'll drop into the more immediate tones of Rabbit's wife, Ruth, or Rabbit himself, and all the gorgeous prose drops away. It felt like Updike was showing off with those more poetic passages, or he didn't yet know how to integrate that with his characters' limited visions." I later expanded on that in a note to a pal of mine, "There are some beautiful sentences in there, but the narrative voice makes little to no sense. Sometimes it's immediately in the characters' heads, but it begins making poetic descriptions of phenomena that the characters themselves couldn't possibly formulate. So it felt like cheating/showing off: 'I'm going to get inside these characters' heads, but then I'm going to make intensely beautiful observations because I've got a bunch of them in my notebook and want to get them out.' Presumably, he got better as a writer, but I was shocked by the clumsiness of that first book." So now you know where I stand. I have the whole Rabbit Angstrom 4-book omnibus, but will I ever get around to those when there are so many other books with more promise?
Housekeeping : I may be the only person who read Marilynne Robinson's Gilead without having read her first novel. Enough people have praised it over the years (including my first podcast guest, Ann Rivera) that I decided to give it a read. They're right. It's fantastic. Robinson's beautiful prose evokes the fragility of home life, the disintegration of family. It also has its roots in Flannery O'Connor, although I'm sure a smarter writer than I could explain how Robinson's Calvinism leads to a different style than O'Connor's (southern) Catholicism.
O, How the Wheel Becomes it! : This was another one-day read ("one-evening," to be precise). It was Anthony Powell's first novel after he finished A Dance to the Music of Time. It's slight, but it parodies/slags the literary fiction and academia scenes in the UK. And I was happy to see the guy who created X. Trapnel return to goofing on the publishing world.
Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games : Americans and Their Games: I don't read a lot of nonfiction books; I prefer long-form articles instead. I guess you could count Darkness Visible and Meditations as nonfiction, but this is the first one on the list to deal with a non-memoir subject. One of my fellow Piraeus members suggested I read this book by the late baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti. It's about the nature of sport, what it says about America and Americans, and, um, numerology. That part only comes up in the final section, but Giamatti sorta ascribes a kabbalistic significance to some of the numbers in baseball. As a whole, the book was a bit dry, in an Aristotelian way, but I enjoyed his reminiscences about playing baseball with his family, as well as the seriousness with which he could approach play.
The Aeneid (tr. Fagles): And this is where I went into overdrive. After that Piraeus weekend at St. John's, I asked one of my tutors for a mini-curriculum of the Romans. I'd given them short shrift, deriding them as pastiches of the Greeks. Within a few minutes of my return to Annapolis, I realized what an unfair characterization this was. So I started educating myself in Roman literature and history, beginning with Virgil. Y'know what? The Aeneid IS a pastiche of Homer's two epic poems, but Virgil's a great enough artist to create something new out of that. The comparison that came to me after finishing the poem was Homer::Virgil as Jordan::Kobe. I don't think Kobe could have been so successful without having MJ's history behind him, but he managed to reach some pretty lofty heights once he incorporated that example.
Yeah, the Aeneid is propaganda for the Roman Empire, but Dido's suicide left me breathless (the retroactive justification for the war with Carthage), Camilla's Final Hour had one of the funniest images I've ever come across (her father, when she was an infant, sent her to safety by tying her to his spear and throwing her across the Amasenus river so he could pick her up after escaping the Volscians), and everybody needs a creation epic, right?
The Stranger (re): I re-read this after finishing the Sartre chapter in Clive James' Cultural Amnesia (coming up soon). I gave Camus' fiction pretty short shrift over the years, too, ever since making a dumb comment about him back in college. Reading him now, and trying to get an understanding of Algeria, I find him much more compelling. I'm always glad to find out how dumb I've been.
I Totally Meant to Do That : This is the first book I read specifically for my podcast, as I was interviewing the author, Jane Borden. It's an enjoyable memoir about a North Carolina debutante, her transformation into a Brooklyn hipster, and how she came to understand home. Check out the podcast!
The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) / Rome and Italy (Books VI-X): After Virgil, I took up the first 10 books of Livy's history of Rome. Seriously, I knew very little about this, so it was both informative and ridiculously entertaining. Livy covers Rome's founding through 293 b.c. in these books (2 volumes from Penguin). It's a cliche to say that knowledge of history informs the present, but the transition from kingdom to republic, driven by the growth in inequality between the high-born and the "peasants," is awfully pertinent. As with all good histories, it's replete with examples of our unchanging nature, demonstrated by our politics and (including the original story of the aforementioned Coriolanus). I'd put this in my must-read list (and I plan to read the subsequent surviving books in 2013).
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts : It took me four years to work my way through this collection of biographical sketches/essays by Clive James. Finishing this book made me happier/prouder than any other book on the list. It's about 800 pages long, and here's the structure: biographical sketch, quotation from the subject, essay by James that may or may not be about the subject. The book focuses on the culture that was destroyed by the great wars and dictatorships of the 20th century, with Vienna as its locus point. James strives to remind us of all that we once had, and was lost. But to describe it like that is to miss the point. This book is an encyclopedia of one of the last cultured men, and its biographical subjects range from Viennese Jews like Stefan Zweig to Coco Chanel to Miles Davis. I read the book sequentially — which means, alphabetically — but it's really intended to be dipped into anywhere that catches your fancy. My problem is that I'm sure I would have glossed over some interesting sketches/essays had I read it that way. And in fact, the piece that I think provides a key to the whole book is the essay about Paul Muratov, a Russian art historian who is (almost) utterly forgotten. If there's any one book I'd recommend above all others in this post, it's Cultural Amnesia. Treat yourself.
The Sense of an Ending : This short Julian Barnes novel was a Kindle loan from my public library. It relies on some really obtuse behavior by a couple of characters in order to keep its mystery going and deliver on its main themes, that memory is unreliable and people can be real pricks in college.
Sea, Swallow Me And Other Stories : This is a short story collection by a guy I knew in college, Craig Gidney. I enjoyed some of them far more than I wanted to, because I am of course jealous of any of my contemporaries who have been able to finish writing anything, much less achieved publication. The book's firmly in the fantasy genre, and many of the stories come from a gay black male perspective. Having published Samuel R. Delany's books once upon a time, I didn't have any squeamishness about that, but I thought you'd like to know. Her Spirit Hovering, about a man who can't get over his mother, is a blast. (But I really didn't like the final story, Catch Him By the Toe, which felt like a Twilight Zone / comic book origin story.)
An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland : I read Michael Dirda's 2003 memoir in preparation for our podcast interview. Having (his version of) the details of his early life under my belt helped to keep me from falling into any "I'm not worthy!" moments during our talk. Not that Mr. Dirda's intimidating in person, by any means, but I've enjoyed his book reviews and columns for decades and feared I would ask him something like, "Why are you so awesome?" a la Chris Farley with Paul McCartney in that SNL skit. The book was pretty enchanting, even though I hoped for a bit more of the "how I became so awesome" material about his time at the Washington Post, rather than "this was the girl I liked in college," but I was happy to learn more about someone whose work I've dug for so long. Check out the podcast!
The Metamorphoses of Ovid (tr. Mandelbaum): Then it was back to the Romans! As I wrote earlier, there are awful, gaping holes in my reading. It's one of the main reasons why I read so little contemporary fiction; there are too many great works of the past for me to catch up on. As I look over the list, it seems that, of the 51 books I finished in 2012, only 14 of them (27%) were published from 2000 on, and only 7 came out since 2009. I'm kicking myself for not getting around to Ovid until now. It's like a kaleidoscope viewing of the Greek and Roman myths, with transformation as the common thread running through them. Does it, like the Aeneid, become propaganda when Julius Caesar gets woven into the end of the poem? Sure, but it's forgivable, when so many of the other myths are of tribal self-identification. Anyway, it's a glorious work, and I wish I had read it in my teens, rather than the pulp science fiction and comics I was raised on.
The Good Soldier : Michael Dirda praised the living heck out of this Ford Madox Ford novel from 1915, so I gave it a read soon after our conversation. The narrator, an who was seemingly unaware of the affair going on between his wife and a British captain, tells the story of passion and suicide in a very disjointed manner. It's not right to say he's an unreliable narrator, but his elliptical way of getting to the heart of the story and his willful blindness to what's going on around him never seem like cheap plot devices; rather, they're both essential his character and indicative of a certain sense of propriety in that era. The narrator's casualness and disjointedness are actually intensely worked out by Ford, so that mere asides turn into harbingers of what the narrator calls "the saddest story I have ever heard." It's a wonderful novel, which I'll likely return to in a year or two to catch the significance in all the seemingly insignificant details.
King Lear (re-read): It was a re-read for seminar at St. John's homecoming weekend. And if you haven't read King Lear yet, then why are you wasting time reading my bazillion-word blog-post? Most of the seminar group was from the same class, so I was an outsider, but we had a good conversation about the nature(s) of madness, the impossibility of retirement, and where there's any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts.
Capital : I'm a fan of John Lanchester's novel, The Debt to Pleasure , and the financial writing he's been doing since the crash, so I gave his mega-novel from 2011 a shot during a business trip to Madrid. It tells the story of a number of people living on a street in London where property values have been skyrocketing. There are multi-generational long-timers, executives from the City, Pakistani shopkeepers, a rising star soccer player, and the various people with whom their lives intersect, including a Banksy-like artist, an illegal immigrant working as a meter maid, a Polish handyman, and more. It's ambitious in its attempt at showing how insane money has gotten in our financial centers, and how it warps the lives of the rich and poor. The need to drive the plot over 600 or so pages means that the prose isn't as gorgeous as in Debt to Pleasure, and it may not reach Bonfire of the Vanities-level zeitgeist-ery, but it's still a good read.
Chess Story : And that brings me to Stefan Zweig. I first read about Zweig at the end (naturally) of Cultural Amnesia. Clive James largely dismissed Zweig's fiction and instead focused on his biographical essays and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. As with many artists in James' book, I made a note to get to him "later on." Then I read an appreciation of Zweig in the New Yorker by Leo Carey that focused on his fiction (both writers also focus on Zweig's 1942 suicide in Petropolis, Brazil) and decided to give his last novella a shot before the flight home from Madrid.
I sat in the airport terminal completely riveted by this slim book (80 pages). As with The Leopard in 2011, I began re-reading the book almost immediately, in awe of the storytelling, the ease of language and symbols, the utter tension of the work. I must have given out half a dozen copies of this to friends to read. The story is about a veritable idiot savant of a chess master who travels on a steamer from New York to Argentina. Our narrator wants to see him play, and contrives to get him into a match with a high-stakes amateur on the ship. A mysterious passenger offers some help during a match, and that's when things really take off.
It's so mind-blowingly good and compact, that I found myself buying up a number of Zweig's other works (he only wrote one novel, otherwise sticking to the novella for his fiction) to see how they measured up. (Keep reading; you'll find out.) But if you're looking for a great (and quick) read, go buy Chess Story right away. Skip the introduction, because it gives away some things that it's better to uncover in the novella itself.
I have a million more things to say about Zweig, but this isn't the place for them, because I'll never finish otherwise.
Bartleby & Co. : The New Yorker also tipped me off to this book by Enrique Vila-Matas. It's ostensibly a novel about "Writers of the No," authors who quit writing or never finished their work. I thought that would be right up my alley, never having started, but the book was disappointing. The concept was fine, but there's not enough novel-ing going on in it. The scenes from the narrator's life, the hints at the bigger world around him, just drop away and the book we're left with isn't substantial enough to make up for not knowing "what happened."
Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness : I read this book by Willard Spiegelman in preparation for a pending podcast interview. (There's a story about that, of course.) On the face of it — a book with the chapters, Reading, Walking, Looking, Dancing, Listening, Swimming, and Writing — I thought I was getting a literary self-help book. It turns out to be a Montaigne-esque series of essays: more meditation than memoir, and certainly not self-help. I enjoyed it a great deal, perhaps because I could relate to so many of Mr. Spiegelman's experiences, even if I'm too chicken to learn to dance.
The Emigrants : I read this W.G. Sebald book over the course of the first day of the Hurricane Sandy blackout. It's written in the same mode as Austerlitz; a first-person narrative (with photos) about the lives of four people driven away from Germany. It's like a precursor to Austerlitz, but I found it a little less haunting, if only because one of the titular emigrants traveled to America and some of the narrator's travels overlapped with highways I've traveled.
Fifth Business / The Manticore / World of Wonders : The blackout was 8 days long, and I managed to read much of Robertson Davies' The Deptford Trilogy in that time. It was pretty great to have no power, no way of getting in touch with the office, and nothing to do but read and sit by the fire. I read Fifth Business more than 20 years ago, but remembered almost none of it. It's hard to describe the story without sounding prosaic. In a sense, it's a melodrama about the magic behind our lives. See? The first book is the best of the series, but the whole trilogy is a joy, even the weird Jungian analysis of The Manticore. It's about life in a provincial Canadian town, and saints, and magicians, and stage-craft, and childhood guilt, and a million other things. Based on my experience with it, I recommend this as a great wintertime read by a fire.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym : I can only hope that Poe's one novel was intended as a parody of sea-faring fantastic tales, because I couldn't make heads nor tails of this.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War : Awesomely entertaining. Max Brooks' novel about a zombie apocalypse and the living's response to it is told as an oral history, 10 years after major hostilities have ceased. The history is told by survivors from around the world, and the International Relations aspect of it is part of why it's so great. The story telescopes from the personal to the international/global. Some of the chapters are heartbreaking, others are terrifically creepy, and it all adds up to a really good book. Sadly, it'll be a movie next year, and that'll ruin everything; it's a slow zombie menace, not a fast zombie one as the movie trailer seems to show, and that runs counter to what makes the book so darned creepy. If we're still dividing literature into genres, then this is my zombie/thriller/horror recommendation of the year.
Journey Into the Past (New York Review Books Classics) : My second Stefan Zweig novella wasn't as good as my first, but that's okay. This one's more of a romantic melodrama, while Chess Story was a heavy-duty psychological crucible built around a chessboard. This one's about the impossibility of fixing love in time, or of recapturing love we once had. While the emotional states are convincing, the story itself simply wasn't compelling to me. Also, no zombies.
How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III : I read this in preparation for a podcast with one of my favorite contemporary writers, Ron Rosenbaum. (That'll post shortly.) Ron's written great articles over the years, and his previous books, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil and The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups , are both worth reading. This one focuses on The Bomb and just how close we are to deliberate or accidental nuclear destruction. It's a bit policy heavy, but Ron makes it readable and pretty darned engaging. He brings some literary meditation to the topic, but this one's first and foremost about the threat of nuclear war, not Ron's usual approach, which is (he said, reductively) to analyze our interpretations of a phenomenon and see what they say about us, rather than go after the heart of the phenomenon itself. It's an important book, but given the head-in-the-sand nature of our civilization, we'll likely ignore it until it's too late.
Selected Stories : A bunch of these cleaned the meh taste of Journey Into the Past. They're all novellas, almost all told to our narrator by another party, and several of them will break your heart. I nearly plotzed over the story of Buchmendel, the Galician Jewish book dealer who gets into trouble during WWI by not having any idea that WWI is going on. The romantic melodramas of Letter from an Unknown Woman, Fantastic Night and Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman show that Zweig can employ pitched emotional states while still delivering a devastating story. After Chess Story, pick this one up.
The Silence of Trees : I read the debut novel by Valya Dudycz Lupescu in preparation for another podcast interview. We tried recording in mid-December, but she had just done the planes, trains and automobiles circuit to get from Chicago to Philadelphia and wasn't at her most coherent. We've rescheduled for my next Chicago trip. It's a novel about a Ukrainian-American matriarch who has suppressed her pre-American life from her family, and how she deals with that as she grows old. It opened my eyes to some of the non-Jewish victims of WWII, and how terrible the conditions were after it ended. There's a certain lack of psychology to the narrator, which I THINK is a symptom of the character's suppression; I'll ask Valya about it in April when we record.
Night Train : Martin Amis tries to tell a police procedural about a suspicious suicide. The narrator, a boxy female detective, has to have a literary background in order to accommodate some of Amis' prose, but he reins it in somewhat. It's . . . not great. I mean, "great" is London Fields and Money. This one has some interesting observations in it, and the cloud of unknowing around the suicide/murder is a neat literary device, but I assume he was trying to make some sorta gender statement by naming his female narrator Mike Hoolihan. Give this one a pass, unless you're on a serious Amis binge.
1984 : I ended the year with Orwell's final novel, which I'd last read 20 years earlier. It's a lot more vivid to me now, but that's the nature of re-reading as a grown-up, I suppose. I don't think I really got the perils of Communism/Totalitarianism when I was younger. Reading it now, I think the real horror isn't the Thought Police or Room 101, but the crumbling cigarettes, the artificial gin, the dull razors and all the other minutiae of colorless life on Airstrip One. (I was also struck this time by the awkwardness with which Orwell introduced some of the concepts of the book, but I think that's typical of a non-science-fiction writer trying to work in that genre.)
So there we are: 52 weeks, 51 books! I'm in the midst of Bleak House right now, and am putting together a selection of stuff I'd like to get to in 2013. Most of those pulls are longer works, so don't expect another giganto-post like this one next year!
In case you want a ranking, here are my top 10 of new reads I finished in 2012:
Chess Story – Stefan Zweig
Cultural Amnesia – Clive James
Short Stories – Anton Chekhov (tr. Pevear & Volokhonsky)
The Aeneid – Virgil (tr. Fagles)
A whole ton of Flannery O'Connor
Austerlitz – WG Sebald
History of Rome, books I-X – Livy
Selected Stories – Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press ed.)
World War Z – Max Brooks
Money – Martin Amis
Posted on September 5, 2012 May 23, 2015
Podcast: Four Quartets and Other Pilgrimages
Virtual Memories – season 2 episode 10
Lyn Ballard – Four Quartets and Other Pilgrimages
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It's time for a new episode of The Virtual Memories Show!
In this one, guest Lyn Ballard talks about her gateway books, the metaphysical poets, reading Huck Finn at the age of 5, an embarrassing Stanley Elkin anecdote, the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, the importance of making literary pilgrimages, and more!
This is part 1 of The Bat Mitzvah Tapes, recorded during our St. Louis trip in August for my niece's bat mitzvah. Next week, I'll post a pretty wide-ranging interview with her dad (my brother Boaz), in which I reveal the key to just about all of Quentin Tarantino's movies.
The Virtual Memories Show is now on iTunes! If you'd like to subscribe, visit our iTunes page!
Credits: This episode's music is River of Bass by Underworld. I recorded the intro on a Blue Yeti mic into Audacity, and the conversation with was recorded on a pair of Blue Encore 100 mics, feeding into a Zoom H4N recorder. All editing was done in Garage Band. Have mics, will travel!


President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro sat down together in Panama City on April 11 in the first formal meeting of the two country's leaders in a half-century, pledging to reach for the kind of peaceful relationship that has eluded their nations for generations.
"We are disposed to talk about everything – with patience," Castro said in Spanish. "Some things we will agree with, and others we won't."The flurry of diplomacy kicked off Wednesday when Obama and Castro spoke by phone – only the second known call between U.S. and Cuban presidents in decades. It continued Friday evening when Obama and Castro traded handshakes and small talk at the summit's opening ceremonies, setting social media abuzz with photos and cellphone video.
Obama and Castro sent shockwaves throughout the hemisphere in December when they announced the plan for rapprochement, and their envoys have spent the ensuing months working through thorny issues such as sanctions, the re-opening of embassies and the island nation's place on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Although earlier in the week Obama suggested a decision to remove Cuba from the list was imminent, he declined to take that step Saturday, citing the need to study a recently completed State Department review. Lawmakers briefed on that review have said it resulted in a recommendation that Cuba be delisted.
Removal from the terror list is a top priority for Castro because it would not only purge a stain on Cuba's pride, but also ease its ability to conduct simple financial transactions.
Yet Obama's delay in delisting Cuba comes as the U.S. seeks concessions of its own – namely, the easing of restrictions on American diplomats' freedom of movement in Havana and better human rights protections. Obama met with Cuban dissidents Friday at a civil society forum, and on Saturday, he said the U.S. would continue pressing Cuba on issues like democracy and human rights.
"We have very different views about how society should be organized," Obama told reporters just before returning to Washington.
A successful detente would form a cornerstone of Obama's foreign policy legacy. But it's an endeavor he can't undertake alone: Only Congress can fully lift the onerous U.S. sanctions regime on Cuba and there are deep pockets of opposition in the U.S. to taking that step.


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Lot number: 080-3193
Laphroaig was founded in 1815 by two brothers from the unassuming Johnston family on the south coast of Islay. Named after the location that the distillery itself was created upon, the name loosely translates to the 'broad hollow by the bay'. In 1994 the Prince of Wales awarded it the Royal Warrant, an accolade attested to no other whisky on earth. Rumour has it that it was the Prince's most favoured whisky.
Having said that, Laphroaig is often perceived as quite an acquired taste amongst the faint of heart, perhaps due to it's intense peaty, smoky and rich flavours. During the prohibition, an American Surgeon General was adamant that it was unfit for recreational consumption, and instead declared it to be strictly utilised for medical purposes only.
Today, it is the biggest selling single malt from Islay, and one of the last distilleries using its own floor maltings.
Bottled as part of the Savoy Collection.
51.2% ABV / 70cl
Bottle Number: 30 / 106
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Home News 80-year-old Shaharyar new PCB chairman
80-year-old Shaharyar new PCB chairman
Former diplomat Shaharyar Khan has been appointed new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Khan has been elected on a three-year term – a move aimed at ending a 14-month leadership tussle which has left the governing body in disarray.
The 80-year-old Khan has become the 30th chairman of the PCB, but the first to have a second tenure. He held the post between December 2003 and October 2006.
"I took this post to end the musical chairs of the chairmen and to have continuity in cricketing affairs," said Khan. "I want to put Pakistan cricket on the right path and do some things which I couldn't do in my first tenure, like strengthening grassroots cricket and to have school and university cricket."
Khan was elected unopposed under the board's new constitution, which was adopted last month in a bid to resolve the dispute triggered in May 2013, when then-chairman Zaka Ashraf was suspended by the Islamabad high court.
After Ashraf's suspension, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed veteran journalist Najam Sethi as PCB head. But court orders and government decrees saw Sethi swapping power with Ashraf five times.
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Buttler admits to feeling daunted at being in close proximity to established stars.
Jacques Kallis admits to warming to the idea of helping arch enemy England
The South African is the third-highest run-scorer in the history of Test cricket.
Graham Onions admits coaching chance is a huge relief after premature retirement
A back issue sustained on the eve of the Bob Willis Trophy led to the 38-year-old announcing his retirement.
England fan who waited in Sri Lanka for 10 months excited for cricket to begin
Rob Lewis, who has been in Sri Lanka since March, does not know how he will watch the game, but has been offered a Zoom call with Joe Root.
Dimuth Karunaratne: We have learned from past errors against England
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne has challenged his side not to make the same mistakes that saw them slump to a 3-0 series loss.
I've known Dan Lawrence was destined for greatness since he was 16 – Nick Browne
Lawrence was tipped for the top even before his maiden first-class century in 2015.
Dom Bess could really make mark on Sri Lanka tour, says England captain Joe Root
England captain Joe Root has tipped Dom Bess to use spinning conditions in Galle to prove he can be a leading man in Test cricket.
On this day in 2009 – Matthew Hayden calls time on international career
The Australia opener scored 8,625 runs in 103 Tests with 30 centuries.
Justin Langer backs Tim Paine and Steve Smith after criticism
Head coach Justin Langer has come to the defence of Tim Paine and Steve Smith after the pair were criticised for their actions.
Joe Root's runs and captaincy are likely to be crucial to England's Test prospects in Sri Lanka, but he stands ready to do his part.


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Kinetic Playground
The Kinetic Playground was a short-lived nightclub located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
The club was opened on April 3, 1968, as the Electric Theater[1] by Aaron Russo and was located at 4812 N. Clark Street (NW corner of Clark and Lawrence). The building was constructed in 1928 and at one time included a dance hall, entertainment center, and ice and roller skating rinks, all known as Rainbo Gardens.[1][2]
Russo was sued by the owners of the Electric Circus in New York City, and changed the club's name a few months after the Chicago club's opening, just prior to the performance of Nova Express and Little Boy Blues on August 9–11, 1968.[3]
The club became a driving force in the music business, hosting famous rock bands and musicians such as The Doors, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, TIm Buckley, The Who, The Byrds, Janis Joplin, Coven, The Mothers of Invention, The Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker, Jeff Beck Group, Eric Burdon, The Small Faces, MC5, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Buffy Saint Marie, Fleetwood Mac, Rotary Connection, Savoy Brown, Vanilla Fudge, Muddy Waters, and Jefferson Airplane.[1][4]
The interior of the venue was featured in the film Medium Cool (1969). The movie was filmed on location during the 1968 Democratic Convention and many members of the Playground crew were hired as extras.
Iron Butterfly, Poco, and King Crimson had been booked for a three-night gig at the Kinetic Playground on November 7, 8, and 9, 1969, but a small fire took place in the venue between acts at the November 7 performance. The remaining dates for this line-up were cancelled. The Kinetic Playground later reopened, without the elaborate light show of its earlier incarnation, in late December 1972, but closed in June 1973 due to neighbors' complaints about the behavior of concertgoers as well as code compliance issues. In 1975 it planned to reopen as the Emerald Isle Discothèque, but apparently never opened its doors again.[1][2][failed verification]
The building was demolished for condominiums in 2003. There is no relationship between the 1968-69 Kinetic Playground and the venue by the same name that operated until 2011 at 1113 W. Lawrence in Chicago, not far from the original. Aaron Russo went on to become Bette Midler's manager.
^ a b c d "Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL 4812 N. Clark Street: Performance List 1968-69". Retrieved 2011-11-22.
^ a b "The Rainbo Gardens Building, 4812-36 N. Clark St., Chicago". Retrieved 2011-11-22.
^ Baker, Robb (August 7, 1968). "The Sound: Music and radio: for young listeners". Chicago Tribune. p. B25. From ProQuest Historical Newspapers Chicago Tribune (1849-1987). (Document ID: 586770362)
^ "Historic Interview with Aaron Russo, Fighting Cancer and the New World Order". Retrieved August 26, 2007.
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shortly before demolition in 1989.
There is a long tradition of Stilton cheese making in Wymeswold. Six dairies producing Stilton were active in the village in the 1920s. The London Lane dairy was the largest and the last to remain operational. The building had originally been erected as the Primitive Methodist chapel but was bought and converted into a dairy by Emberlins of Leicester in 1910. It was later taken over by J.M. Nuttall and Co. (who also owned dairies in Hartington and Scalford) before being sold to the Milk Marketing Board in 1962 to form part of the Dairy Crest operations.
The dairy was famous for its prize-winning Stilton and its heyday produced an average of 500 a week. The MMB proposed to produce their new 'Lymeswold' cheese (rather akin to bree) here in the late 1970s but found that expected demand would outstrip capacity so production was switched to Somerset. The scene depicted on the early label for Lymeswold cheese bore a striking resemblance to the view of St Mary's church from The Stockwell.
At the time of closure in October 1987 seven people were employed at the dairy. Following its sale and demolition the site was redeveloped as sheltered accomodation, but soon became a nursing home instead.
Wymeswold Court Nursing Home in 1993.
Originally published in A Portrait of Wymeswold 1991 with additional information from Wolds Reflections 1997.