Its amazing how when you are thinking of a particular concept or idea and the universe suddenly starts throwing things your way that echo your thoughts. I read somewhere that its a Psychological phenomenon, but its hard to believe that all that is psychology when it seems too ridiculous to be chance… Anyway I digress… … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Inception has easily been one of the most entertaining and gripping movies I have had the pleasure of watching. As I sat in the the theater dumbstruck trying to navigate the mind and ideas of Christopher Nolan there was a weird sense of Déjà vu… Thirty minutes into the movie I remembered … Read more
You have the power to cure all the world’s diseases but the price for this is that you must kill a single innocent child, could you kill that child? Thats the question asked by the protagonist during the climax of Swordfish… I have thought about that question many times, asked it to a few ppl … Read more
Yesterday I was reading a short story I wrote about 5 years ago. I was amazed at how my writing has changed over time. While I hope that I write better now, there is one thing I know for sure, the past ‘me’ had unlimited spirit in writing.
Just reading through five pages of text gave enough perspective to juxtapose the twenty year old me and present me. Sadly I wasn’t too thrilled at what I saw…
A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to product to risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book… A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume – something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it’s difficult to call books a ‘mass medium’. No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.
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These are the places that only books can go.
This is the advantage that books still have. This is why I write.
– The Guts Effect by Chuck Palahniuk
Found this amazing Essay by the author of Fight Club. The essay had me hooked as it explained a phenomenon that happened at the readings of a certain short story by Chuck Palahniuk. The phenomenon is covered in the Wikipedia article of the author: