Poetic Neuroscience (For Kamas)

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Navita
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Mon May 30, 2011 9:29 am
Navita says... · Mon May 30, 2011 9:29 am
On Your Mind

Takes a while to get there, but is still madly fascinating in the meantime.

Also, for anyone wondering about the scientific basis of empathy, about the most key thing you can have to write well:

The Neurons That Shaped Civilisation
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Mon May 30, 2011 2:41 pm
Kamas says... · Mon May 30, 2011 2:41 pm
Fantastic Navita.
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." ~ Charles Chaplin

#tnt
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Mon May 30, 2011 3:21 pm
Lava says... · Mon May 30, 2011 3:21 pm
My grandad is somehow related to Ramchandran. Somehow because I got lost in the list of relations he was trying to tell me. But it ends up with Ramachandran's mother being related to him.

The net's too slow to stream; I shall look at it when I go back home.
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Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know.
- Ian McEwan in Atonement

sachi: influencing others since GOD KNOWS WHEN.

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The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch