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Underlying the brain’s ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally devoted to other more basic brain processes that have enjoyed a longer existence in human evolution, such as vision and …
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28. January 2012 by The Geecologist
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: brain, chinese, english, extract, joseph epstein, maryanne wolf, neurons, open architecture, proust and the squid, quotation, reading, we are what we read |
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So, then, you noticed in a newspaper that If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller had appeared, the new book by Italo Calvino, who hadn’t published for several years. You went to the bookshop and bought the volume. Good for …
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06. January 2012 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
Italo Calvino written in
1979
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: books, consumerism, crowd, if on a winter's night a traveller, italo calvino, reading |
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“He was, of course,” said Emberlin, “occupied in giving splendour to Art by Numbers. And this, as far as I can gather from Zuylerius, is how it all happened. He just suddenly fell in love with numbers head over ears, …
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26. December 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
Aldous Huxley written in
1920
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: aldous huxley, art, black swans, brick-red, counting, cyclops, dwarf, eros, eupompus gave splendour to art by numbers, granite, hammer, in the land of the blind, limbo, neoplatonic, numbers, ocean, orchard, painting, philarithmetic, socratic, stars, the giaconda smile, zuylerius |
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And the sailors, she asked, No one came, as you can see, But did some at least say they would come, she asked, They said there are no more unknown islands and that, even if there were, they weren’t prepared …
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03. December 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
Jose Saramago written in
1998
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: illusion, jose saramago, philosophy, sailors, ships, sky, the tale of the unknown island |
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This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner and the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The …
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27. November 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
W.H.Auden written in
1935
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: night mail, spoken word, trains, transport, w.h. auden |
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Like the fur of a chinchilla. Like the cleanest tooth. Yes, the fishes say, this is what it feels like. People always ask the fishes, ‘What does the water feel like to you?’ and the fishes are always happy to …
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20. November 2011 by The Geecologist
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: ash, chinchilla, cold, dave eggers, feathers, fish, glass, honey, night, powder, short short stories, sigh, thousands of hairs, tongue of a cat, tooth, water, what the water feels like to the fishes |
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Most people are able to sift out the day’s excess information without ever thinking about it, but to the tech worker exhibiting autistic – okay, let’s just say the word: geek – to most geeks, a hug is not a hug, it’s the physical equivalent of holding a novelty marine foghorn up to the ear and blasting it directly into the central nervous system. When you hug a geek, you’re overloading them in a manner they find intolerable. They feel and express shock and revulsion when touched.
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27. October 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
Douglas Coupland written in
2006
Categories: Geekery, Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: aloof, aspergers, autistic, central nervous system, character, clown, condition, dale carnegie, disease, douglas coupland, geek, hugs, idiot, jpod, loner, novelty marine foghorn, personality, prosopagnosia, quiet, shy, spooky, talkative, tourette's syndrome, turnitthefuckoff, unabomber |
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O the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and the earth below! Over the house-tops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet, Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along. Beautiful snow! it can do nothing wrong. Flying to …
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19. September 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
John Whitaker Watson written in
1869
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: beautiful snow, carol, crystal, freak, freezing, gay sledges, heavens, john whitaker watson, poetry, shivering, snowflake |
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The next day the big drama was that John cast a spell on Evil Mark after Evil Mark ate a packet of Handi-Snacks John had left on his desk. Like anything weird in life, it began small and escalated. “Evil …
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13. September 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
Douglas Coupland written in
2006
Categories: Geekery, Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: cartoon perception, casting a spell, cheese, corporations, cubicle rage, douglas coupland, evil mark, handi-snack, invisible gnome dandruff, jpod, ritual, stapler |
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‘My shit story. Hide-and-seek, gang of neighbourhood kids, twilight. I’m running for home base and trip over decorative logs somebody bordered his driveway with and went flying and put my hands out to like shield the impact and what do …
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29. August 2011 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
David Foster Wallace written in
2011
Categories: Lies, Truth & Lies |
Tags: childhood, david foster wallace, doorbell, hide-and-seek, horror, knocker, memories, monster, radio, shit, skin, the pale king |
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