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What does a story smell like?
The book I’m reading about the mysterious workings of the brain posits that sense experience is not linear. So the fact that dogs have 220 million olfactory receptors in their noses while humans have only 5 million does not mean that dogs smell a dirty sock at 44 times the volume that we do. What it [...]
Something to make you happy, something to make you…furious.
Have a look at this. It turns out to be an ad for something or other — but I don’t care; it’s fantastic. Speaking of advertising, I’ve been thinking about my past career today, possibly because the news is full of 49% pay rises for UK top bosses while spending on education, health and social [...]
My dream house.
I had the dream again last night. In it, I am trying to make sense of a house that’s too small and cramped. It’s awful. We have to move. And then suddenly I discover a false wall, or a door I never noticed. Once it led to an entire empty floor above the one we [...]
Reasons to be cheerful.
What with the economy tanking and sugar prices rising, not to mention cutbacks in the NHS and eighteen rare Bengal tigers shot in Zanesville, Ohio, the news seems to be almost all bad this week.* In an attempt to be positive, I offer you the following list of things that make me happy, in the hopes [...]
The idea ghost visits me in the night.
It’s been a sticky couple of months. I got to the end of the path on my first draft, and there didn’t seem to be anywhere else to go. I looked around, reread, forced myself to take little forays into the woods on both sides of the path, set my brain free, reeled it back [...]
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