[MNT] Yang Mai Yung

Yang Mai Yung, Yading, China © Seve Chong

____________________[PRO] faith issues in a corporate practices

"Chuck Ripka, a mortgage banker, asking the Lord to help Matt and Jaimie Deboer get a good price for their home". - Faith at Work, New York Times (огромная статья была, со всякими забавными примерами; поленился в своё время скопировать, теперь вот придётся довольствоваться "только картинками")

upd: kirillt помог найти оригинал

оттуда же - ( корпоративные религиозные практики в компании intel )

[MNT] Half Dome After Storm

Half Dome After Storm © Gerry Clarke

____________________[PRO] diary writing contempo

'Does journal-writing
foster a sterile
self-absorption
that is a waste of
the writer's time?'

 

"Some time ago a disgruntled poetry critic delivered a broadside against journal-writing. What he had in his sights was the whole creative writing industry approach to poetry - the approach summed up in the popular self-help book The Artist's Way. I have a copy of this book and though I haven't got very far into it, I recall the advice to every prospective or practising artist to write three "morning pages" - just whatever comes, uncensored, into the mind and on to the paper first thing, preferably before breakfast. The pages are to be regarded as a kind of compost or even manure kept for a while in a box, but not reread, or lovingly treasured, and eventually thrown away.

I like the idea but - ( the rest of the article )

seeds for thoughts:

three "morning pages"

the more copious and bizarre the dreams the better

colour-coded notebooks for different aspects of life

the simple answer is that I enjoy it

beyond personal integration lies interpersonal integration

[PER] The Golden Notebook

"Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary.

Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook." - Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

 

seeds for thoughts:

"[O]bsession with constructing a comprehensive sense of identity leads to an infinite fictionalisation of life."

"[Lessing] doesn't construct very believable or interesting male characters. The female ones are better, though. ...[s]ince cognitive psychologists and neurobiologists have established that women have superior social intelligence compared to males - I don't understand why this should be the case."

вот ведь забавно, я "только что" думал имено про это, в ходе внутренней критики Pattern Recognition гибсона. у меня много такой критики накопилось, надо будет отдельно писать, но вот то, как неубедительно он пишет кейси, главную героиню - ужасно расстроило.

причём, больше всего расстроили именно потуги написать правильно - и про месячные ввёрнуто, и про "иррациональности", и про эмоциональную лабильность. всё расставлено "где положено". а - "не верю!"

беда.