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My first foray into taking a term and adding the current year to it yields some interesting results, although it seems NotebookLM focused on the term “umwelt” instead. Still then, it’s worth looking at what it found for me. The sources it found revolve around an exploration of “the evolving role of the organism as…
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I decided to query NotebookLM with the question “how intellectual joy can be a form of self care.” I got the idea from a Prose and Petticoats video on Emelie Du Chatelet, and it was a comment that Dmmalie Arents made as an observation of Emelie’s work. There are a lot of great sources on…
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From Anthony Veasna So, “baby yeah” Brilliant writer who “accidentally” overdosed in 2020. “My friend and I saw each other as hopeless writers, misunderstood prophets, critics of our cultural moment who rejected obvious and reductive politics. We never indulged in ordinary pursuits because we yearned to write masterpieces, timeless works infused with nihilistic joy and…
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An exceptionally interesting passage from “The Gamble” by Liza Mounzer: “…he was a great believer in the future. For himself and the world at large. It was the promised land where everything we’d ever wanted would come to be. It was his favorite tense. When we are; we will; we’ll have; you’ll see. I used…
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“Obviously I don’t know where ideas come from, but I do believe everyone has a unique vision. Given the freedom to create, everybody is creative. All of us have an innate, instinctive desire to change our environment, to put our original stamp on this world, to tell a story never told before. I’m absolutely thrilled…
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Welcome to my digital commonplace book, where I save things that I find interesting, and you might too! Obscure Curiosites has struggled to find an identity, but I think this is its final form. Enjoy the random nonsense that I for some reason thought worth putting up here! All of the previous content, outside of…
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“For when too large a proportion of the populace is supporting itself by the indirections of trade and business and commerce and art and the million schemes of men in cities, then the complexity of society is likely to become so great as to destroy its equilibrium, and it will always be out of balance…
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I want to focus on writing “good stuff.” What exactly does that mean? Find a formula that works, or ride the tried-and-true train to the bank? No, I just want to sit there and write something, then at the end of the day I feel like I said something good. Every day is different and…
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I’m on a never-ending quest for turnkey phrases, those magical combinations of words that drive themselves relentlessly towards unique expressions of ideas and memories. Once assembled, they’ll propel themselves forward like an unstoppable freight train, hellbent on smashing writer’s block, becoming my guiding light into the elusive territory of original expression. Every time I think…
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There must be a purpose when you write. It shouldn’t only be the topic that you wish to cover. Some of the best writing that I’ve encountered, whether my own or others, was a product of simply writing for a purpose besides covering one or more specific things. There are so many things that deserve…