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Oct. 30th, 2008 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadesfireGood morning, people. Thanks to everyone who dropped in yesterday to offer sympathy or to get over-excited about writing with me. I'm still over-excited today, and I'm still alright, although my shoulder's hurting quite a lot more. It's not bad, just nagging, so I'm going to see how I go. Certainly typing isn't great for it, but at least I don't have to shelve books as well.
Speaking of books, I heard the piece on the Today programme about this on my way into work and thought it would be of interest to the flist:
Eunoia
"Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Mr Bok believes his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language. Below are extracts from each chapter."
It's fascinating. Very, very odd, but fascinating.
Something else that caught my eye this morning was this short piece about 'darkness' in modern arts (particularly films). Some food for thought there, definitely.
Anyone else read/seen/heard anything interesting? I don't get out and about on the net nearly as much as I should, so I'm cheating and getting my flist to bring the net to me! Anything you think should be shared?
Speaking of books, I heard the piece on the Today programme about this on my way into work and thought it would be of interest to the flist:
Eunoia
"Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Mr Bok believes his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language. Below are extracts from each chapter."
It's fascinating. Very, very odd, but fascinating.
Something else that caught my eye this morning was this short piece about 'darkness' in modern arts (particularly films). Some food for thought there, definitely.
Anyone else read/seen/heard anything interesting? I don't get out and about on the net nearly as much as I should, so I'm cheating and getting my flist to bring the net to me! Anything you think should be shared?
