Writing about writing and reading
I saw an advertisement recently for an app for an insurance company. The ad starts with a dark sky and stormy night over a large house with flickering lights. Scary music is playing and an old guy is looking terrified like it's haunted. Cut to a family having dinner and a baby is flailing away …
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The idea of dying, and being gone forever, never existing again, is scary. But the idea of always existing, forever, with no end no matter what you do, is pretty horrible too. Maybe humans fear/are repelled by ideas of the infinite because everything we know is finite. Would experiencing something infinite relieve that fear? Maybe, …
I will see the total eclipse on the 21st! I will have to sleep in my car and drive for many hours, but I will see it! I've never seen one, and can't help but wonder what it must have been like for ancient peoples who had no idea what was going on. I'm sure …
Walking generates ideas. It turns gears that churn the mix in my brain and make new things pop up. However, I've found that walking the same geographical location, turns up the same thoughts. It's as if my mind is walking down it's own internal path, and passing the same ideas over and over again. I've …
More forcing of Dany and Jon together, even though Dany and Jorah had more chemistry than those two. Even her interactions with Drogo felt less forced... But it was rad seeing Jon pet a dragon. He's going to ride one, next to Dany and some other mysterious third person will ride the third dragon. But …
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