- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry's Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.
- American Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.
- Argued
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- Nov 07, 2020
In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do I want from a book? Something protean, something always on-the-move-or-make - shape-shifting, semantically-and-syntactically-shifting.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books were in my family - books were my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.
- Muslim
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it's mystic.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020