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Tracking anything except ranked adds stress rather than enjoyment and defies the point of playing a normal game. However, I'm proposing only a modest change.
This overly competitive environment is part of the reason people are frequently jerks. Stuff like KDA makes no sense to me. This isn't an FPS and success isn't measured by how many kills you get. An Akali with 15 kills of which half would have gone to the ADC isn't helping anyone. Meanwhile, a 0/5/10 Janna may be the hidden MVP.
There isn't any useful information coming from KDA and all it does is precipitate whining and feeding accusations. If you use it to see how fed someone is, you could just as easily look at their items. As far as how the team's doing, global gold would be far more relevant.
Having KDA displayed for each player in-game is anti-teamwork as I'm sure you've seen with the lengths some people go to for taking an easy kill from an ally. It's a ME ME ME orientation that is naturally going to lead to friction. Present all those stats after the game's over so people try less to one-up each other and more to work as a team. The focus should be on team objectives not personal results leading to blame games, stress and distractions. I actually think tracking KDA at all isn't healthy.
I love poker and and I can tell you that some rich people don't mind losing tens of thousands of dollars while messing around. By that, I mean playing every hand to suckout or running enormous bluffs over and over again. However, they still have egos and want to be respected. When results were publicly tracked for most poker sites, many were frustrated and it hurt the casual atmosphere. They were now reminded of their stats in game and called "donks", "fish" or "whales." That's why PokerStars paid huge sums for tracking sites like SharkScope and PokerTableRatings to block stats unless a player wanted them shown. I think the same thing happens in LoL. Players behave and play worse for it while having less fun.
uhhh kda for supports should be high too assuming they're properly played since you are factoring assists....
I have no legitimate reason to oppose this.
Does anyone even care about KDA? LIke, everyone tracks elo not KDA so I don't see what's wrong with it. I like to look at mine for certain champions sometimes just for fun.
I guess you haven't seen the threads that begin with "I got X kills and everyone else was terribad!"
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but if i have 30 kills and you have 2
u justjelly cause mad
you want my proof take away
go back to your punish only tribunal date night
first you say i cant talk
now you say i cant even have my score displayed
I've never used Tribunal and am against the idea of permanent bans as they work. You can be as self-absorbed as you want and look at all the pretty kills but NOT WHILE THE GAME'S IN PROGRESS. In- game, you're part of the Borg or Zerg hive mind and work with perfect synchrony for a common goal. Ego and blame are unknown to you. KDA information only distracts from that.
actually it tells me alot
i know x champ has more gold
and champion y shouldnt be given blue or red
im just trolling your post to make a crack at the tribunal crybabies
i agree with end game gettin removed but not mid game
I've always suggested in the past to just merge "KDA" into 1 single thing, "Score", since even before dominion. This way, supports have a good score as well as carries.
You can go both ways on this.
Yes there are those people that are more on the selfish side and play to "look good" and will even steal kills when they should let another player have it (i.e. a support taking a kill from an adc). Although this mainly happens in lower level games it can be a big issue. I've even had players on my time who were afraid to team fight after a while because they were 11-1 or something.
On the other side it's useful to see these stats because you can see which players are fed therefore who you need to focus first in a fight and that's important.
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Jakarta: Indonesia's top mixed doubles pair, Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir has decided to withdraw from the 2014 World Championships that will take place from August 25 to 31 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tontowi injured his ankle during a training session at the Australian Open last June. After the injury, the pair had to withdraw from Australian Open and returned to Jakarta for treatment and rehabilitation. However, Tontowi's ankle recovery is taking longer than expected. To avoid aggravating the injury, the pair was forced to pull out of the world championship.
"It takes at least one month of preparation before appearing in a tournament. We've calculated that he only has 18 days for preparations before the World Championship. So the pair is definitely not ready to defend their title," said Badminton Association of Indonesia (PBSI).
Although absent in the World Championship, Tontowi injury is expected to recover 100 percent and able to play at the Asian Games in September.
"Currently, Tontowi's physical condition is not at 100% yet; therefore, his focus will now switch to the Asian Games," added PBSI.
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Modern, comfortable rooms. Just a short stroll from Parkstone Railway Station. Excellent restaurant. Friendly staff
The main-street facing rooms are a bit noisy because of traffic
Good food in the restaurant Good shower in the room
Air conditioning unit outside window that ran throughout the night
Staff were very attentive.
1 thin pillow on the bed. The bed was hard and we had trouble sleeping well.
I ordered a bottle of wine at dinner the waiter brought it to the table plonked it down and disappeared instead of pouring and letting us taste it however it was very nice
bath was big
car park was closed
No car park!!
Staff were friendly and helpful
No parking available
Friendly staff, comfortable room
Lots of stairs and busy road outside
The downstairs bar and restaurant area is very nice. Pleasant staff. Clean and tidy. Good size room.
Quite expensive for what it was. £90 for the room without breakfast was quite steep in my opinion, though anything slightly less in the area is a much poorer standard of accommodation compared to the Ox in fairness. No parking at £90 a room, again is probably asking a lot.
Excellent service staff were outstanding.
Quite expensive however would still go back without hesitation.
The bathroom. The shower had no curtain, and the toilet was so close to the bath I could not sit on it
Hotel facilities, lounge and bar were very great and the atmosphere was good. Staff brilliant and accommodating for requests. Room was very well presented, very comfortable bed and nice bathroom. Restaurant service good and pretty quick.
Few minor points..(1) Like a lot of hotels, the main lights do not have enough power so needed to put bed side lights on in the evening. (2) No air conditioning so was a little warm (on a hot evening). (3) Some rooms adjacent to busy road so a bit noisy but didn't keep me a wake.
Friendly, welcoming and helpful staff. Lovely room and delicious food. All at an excellent price.
The only small complaint would be the road noise in our room, due to single glazed windows.
Lovely, helpful and friendly staff. Brilliant breakfast and really nicely decorated and spacious room. Thank you for having us!
Clean, modern rooms.
Smallish rooms compared to photos, not ready for check in, smelled of smoke in the corridor
Cute boutique room, very large comfy bed! Great en suite and shower!! Close location
Small room, lack of parking, quite noisey, breakfast not included
A bit far from BIC
Trendy bar and restaurant that served delicious food. No need to eat anywhere else. Good service and would stay again
Lovely place, great food, brill location
No Parking, so had to park a little bit away. Bedroom on main road, so traffic noise was a little high
Ease of check-in, friendliness and helpfulness of staff, room decor, bathroom, restaurant/bar
Two single beds when double requested, road noise.
Russell makes you feel as though you are a guest in his home. Nothing is too much trouble from getting the poached eggs right to remembering my favourite room and storing a picnic for the following day in the fridge. Will definitely stay again and would recommend to anyone visiting Poole.
The room was very clean and tidy. Decor was very nice. The shower cubicle in the bathroom was huge not like the standard claustrophobic ones.
The only issue with the room was the noise from the main road. A lorry driving past the hotel woke me up at about one in the morning.
clean tidy everthing you want in a room
Room was well decorated and very comfy. Staff were friendly and good was delicious.
There isn't any parking at re hotel. But there is plenty nearby
Location is good. This is my hometown and often go back. Ashley Cross is a nice area with a good selection of eateries and pubs and has a village feel to it.
No free parking except up by the church if you are lucky. Pay and Display car park bag opposite. I had a nice bedroom but the quilt was man made rather than feather which made my nights sleep very hot. I had a room at the front and being someone who likes a bit of fresh air , I had the window open a tiny amount. Traffic throughout was awful and kept me awake all night. A room round the back would have been better.
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I discovered what I believe to be a genuine gem in my Internet reveries this morning. Point your browser to http://www.emmytvlegends.org/ and settle in with a cup of your favorite beverage, as once you have started, you simply cannot quit.
This is a collection of television and movie stars being interviewed. Most of the stars/starlets were there when television was in its infancy, and they tell about various aspects of their performance histories. As far as I can tell, most of the interviews were unrehearsed, and stand as near-historical documents in my opinion.
The site features a good search engine, and includes a wide variety of luminaries, many of whom are either well up in years or deceased. If you loved early television, this site will take you back in time when television all began.


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Last week I did 5 cardio session, 3 strength, 1 yoga session
This week I will try to keep up the fitness! Started doing the Beck Diet Solution book so we'll see... but School is going bananas because we have ONE week left, then Boards time!
Sorry this is so short. I'm working hard to keep up the exercise and eating habits :-) I'll probably write one more time when school ends... then I will be off line for 6 weeks while I study for the 2 year national cumulative test.
Happy Sparking!
I am seriously considering training for a triathlon! I have done 2 marathons, 3 1/2 marathons, and 2 10ks and many other little races... so the running part doesn't scare me so much. I bike to school and atleast KNOW how to ride a bike so that part doesn't frighten me as much (plus training will help me become mroe efficient at biking) but the SWIMMING scares me to death! I have taken swimming lessons 3 times and I know how to swim but I have a PHOBIA of being in water where my feet don't touch the ground lol. and I'm 5'1. So I don't know many places I could swim .5-2.4 miles in 5 foot water. The point is that it is very important for me to get over my deep water phobia and I've tried before. The reason I know I can swim is that... lol... if I don't know how deep it is I do fine, It's just that when I feel myself start "floating" more I really really get freaked out and quickly sprint/swim towards the wall! There will not be a wall in the triathalon! Oh well.. I'll give it some thought and I know that my 3rd year of school will be endless hours in the hospital so I probably will not be able to get it in before 2010 but I think I will start training now. Maybe I can get over my phobia by then.
Hope all is well with you guys! Lauryn you are right... it is good to know that others are going through tough times AND still making it work. Life has hills and valleys. Atleast we know we have a place to go and unload our burdens! Lol... hope you all don't mind when I come stress about school to you all! I have 2 more tests until this year is over. Please keep me in your prayers. Summer is goign to be rough for about 6 weeks. Then I get 3 weeks to relax!
If anyone has Tips for triathlons please let me know...
I'm sure I need to improve my swimming skill and I'm open to suggestions! :-)
Oh and I'm thinking about doing a "sprint" Triathlon on Oct 11 [ They said this will be an indoor snake/swim?] - this will be on weekend b/t school but I'm not sure how lenient they will be with my "off time". I do know we are promised AT LEAST one day off per week. So maybe i will get that day off.
Hey everyone!
Writiing this one early this past week was great! I worked out 6/7 days... burned over 7000 calories and really hoping for some weight loss.
6- cardios
3 strength
1 60 min yoga
5 stretching
I have 2 tests this week and school is really starting to weigh down on me... so I'm going to try to keep things simple and basic. I will workout as much as possible. I'm trying to eat on my lower caloric scale until I see the scale move. I ate 1250 cals today and I'm proud of that. I realized yesterday that I actually DO suffer from emotional eating. :-/ Who knew!? apparently, if I'm lonely. upset, bored, or overwhelmed I eat. I didn't really know that. I never eat too much and make "healthy" choices but really I wasn't hungry! I just figured that out. I went to Mcdonald's yesterday and got 3 items off the $ menu and though I wanted them, I didn't NEED them and honestly wasn't hungry. So after I ate it, I realized why did the urge of McDonald's come over so fast.... so suddenly? It was because after looking back I was overwhelmed and frustrated. And that caused me to realize that I AM the one who controls what I eat and I AM the only one who can fix this/ so today, I stuck to my calories... and in the future when I feel an overwhelming urge to have something that I didn't even want an hour prior I will not give in. if I want it that bad, I will want it the next day too. and GUESS WHAT... It WILL STILL BE THERE!!!!!@! YAY!
So... I had no fast food today. And that is an accomplishment! Oh and I went grocery shopping today too. So now I have food to eat and no reason or excuse to run out and get greasy or pseudo-healthy fast food and end up adding fries! LOL!
Have a great week everyone! I am going to continue working hard. I pray you all have a great week and though mine will be busy, I am putting myself high on my list and I AM GOING TO SUCCEED!
I'm not one to brag.... but I have been working hard! I hope to see the scale moving in the downward direction soon!!!!!!!
My workout today:
I just burned 2481 calories (I use a Heart Rate Monitor)!!!! I worked out 2 hours 45 mins.
Yoga- 60 mins
rode bike to the gym- not walking distance 45 mins
Kick n core class ---- Killer!!! 60 mins
Heart Rate was around 190 - 140.
I am soooo excited. Today was a good workout day!
Actually This week and last week have been pretty good! Last Week I did 6 cardio, 3 strength, 1 yoga, and stretching 4 times
This week so far... (My week starts on Monday) 4 cardio, 3 strength training, 1 yoga, 3 stretching/... and I'm debating whether or not to do Day 5 Shred today. I've already burned a lot of calories and I'm kinda tired!
I just wanted to say... Expect goooood things in your life. God (or whomever you believe in) never gives you more than you can handle... Life is truly a blessing. Though we are in a battle with our weight, we must remember that each day is a GIFT and we better unwrap that present and enjoy it RIGHT NOW. As we are. No matter how many flaws we have... cause we have ONE chance at this and we don't get a do-over. Live life to the fullest and find Joy in your struggles!
the way I figure it... life never slows down so we can catch up... so these trials and tribulations ARE life. And I think there is always something to love and enjoy... it's your job to find it!
gotta go to sleep so I can get up and rock this test tomorrow! Love you all Sparkers!


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The clue: Nails that look scooped out. An easy test: squeeze one or two drops of water from an eye dropper on the center of your nail. If the water sits on top rather than accumulating, it's spoon nails.
What it means: "Spoon nails signify a deficiency in iron," says Kyle Coleman, MD of Westlake Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery. When you have spoon nails, the blood supply doesn't reach the middle of your nail to make it grow. In some cases, spoon nails can be a sign of heart disease or hypothyroidism, a condition marked by an underactive thyroid gland.
What to do about it: You need to see your doctor and get the appropriate blood work done to figure out what kind of deficiency is behind it. In some cases, iron supplements might be prescribed. If your thyroid is out of wack, your endocrinologist will work with you to get it sorted out.


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Review: 'Louie' - 'Looking for Liz/Lilly Changes'
A quick review of tonight's "Louie" coming up just as soon as I speak Slovenian...
A quick review of tonight's "Louie" coming up just as soon as I speak Slovenian...
A review of the "Burn Notice" mid-season finale coming up just as soon as I use sparkplugs as a substitute for diamonds...
I don't know about y'all, but I haven't been all that impressed by the intelligence of the hamsters on "Big Brother" this season.
One way or the other, Thursday's (August 23) episode will make the end of one of the dumbest Head of Household reigns in recent memory. It wasn't that Dim-Bulb Pretty Boy Shane did the wrong thing with his nominations. When the opportunity to get rid of Mike Boogie and 21st Century William Katt Frank presents itself, you have to take it. But watching Shane justify his picks on Wednesday's episode was comically awkward, as he threw Britney under the bus and Britney tacitly threw Dan under the bus and Dan sat in stoic silence throwing himself under the bus. The lone beneficiary of all of the bus-throwing on Wednesday was Ian, whose status as undercover-weasel remains safe.
But how long would Anemic Harry Potter Ian be able to keep that secret? Would Boogie be able to convince enough people to vote Jenn out to survive another week? And how many combined sentient statements would Shane and Ashley -- Seriously, how have those two not hooked up yet? -- be able to make in an hour?
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Joy Formidable has one of those band names that fits its sound perfectly, like dogs that look like their owners.
So here's a wolf. Or "Wolf's Law." The music video is made of the stuff that's the core of those Inspiration Posters, all in black and white, while Ritzy Bryan's Welch vowels saturate her powerful voice and drapes all over this quiet-LOUD piece. They give a piano a good ride and then let the earth rise up and nearly implode. I half expected the "2001" star-child fetus to appear in the end.
"The band really wanted the film to translate the idea of a re-awakening and rebirth. We worked together to select a series of stills and moving imagery that showed the Real and the truth of nature. Through rhythmical editing we created a real symbiosis of imagery and music to evoke the powerful kinetic energy of life in all forms," said the video's director Cat Botibol.
"Wolf's Law" is the title track off the band's new album, due in 2013. The sophomore set is the follow-up to Joy Formidable's awesome 2011 album "The Big Roar."
Guys, I'm sorry to do this to you, but it's worth warning you that there's a link to a Perez Hilton video below.
Phew. Got that out of the way.
Let's talk about Christina Aguilera, and her newly leaked -- or was it "leaked"? -- song "Your Body." The singer previously confirmed to Rolling Stone that "Your Body" would be the title to her next single, and here it is, a stunning song that seems to be lacking a master.
And Christina Aguilera is making it abundantly clear she wants to "f*ck ya body."
This one has the cool-headed, dance floor approach a la Enrique Iglesias to said sacking. I can already hear the radio edit: "All I wanna do is love your body." The simple, mindless four-on-the-floor refrain has Aguilera flaunting her famous pipes on either side with the verses. It sounds like she had fun recording, and that there's ample room for endless iterations and remixes. It's true: somebody's getting lucky, and it's you!
The song arrives suspiciously close to the Sept. 10 premiere of the new season of "The Voice," on which Aguilera will mount her judge's chair and now all we'll be thinking of when she does is that.
What do you think of this nasty little number?
That's what we were waiting for: Aerosmith released "Lover Alot," a new tune from "Music From Another Dimenson." today and it's the kind of streamrolling rocker that made the band great.
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It is increasingly uncommon to have a day on a set alone, with no other press, but with Judd Apatow's films, there is a long precedent that is on my side. After all, I've visited him on all of his films, as well as many of the movies he's produced, and I've built a rapport with Judd and with many of the people who work on his films that makes it very easy to hit the ground running when it comes time to write about what he's working on.
When I got the call to drive down to the set of "This Is 40," I was told that they'd picked the day specifically so I would have a chance to talk to Albert Brooks. That was a priority for me because of how much I adore his work. I'd talked to Paul Rudd a few weeks earlier about how excited he was to have Brooks playing his father in the film. Considering he had just finished a film where Jack Nicholson played his father, I told Rudd he was rapidly defining a very strange niche for himself as an actor, but one that seemed like it would be a lot of fun.
Alicia Keys looks hot on the cover of her new album, "Girl On Fire." Clad in all black and looking like a cross between Cat Woman and The Avengers' Black Widow, Keys looks ready to take on the world. And apparently she is: she tells Entertainment Weekly that "the powerful feeling is what it's all about."
Out Nov. 27, the album "represents a new me in every way," she says.
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Alright, make some room. Another potential Oscar play has joined the party.
We've been speculating for some time that either Sacha Gervasi's "Hitchcock" (Fox Searchlight), Scott Cooper's "Out of the Furnace" (Relativity) or Gus Van Sant's "Promised Land" (Focus) could be last-minute additions to the season. Gervasi's film, it appears, is sticking with a 2013 launch, while Cooper's -- which came *this* close to peeking out this year -- will hold off as well.
But Focus has just announced that Van Sant's film, from a screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski (based on a story by author Dave Eggers), will indeed hit the ground running in 2012. The film, starring Damon and Krasinski, along with Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt and Hal Holbrook, will miss the festival circuit but it's set for release New York and Los Angeles on December 28.
One Direction is definitely striking while the boy band iron is hot. In November, the British quintet will release a new album, less than eight months after its debut, "Up All Night," came out in the U.S.
That album, which is the top-selling album in the U.S. released by an act in 2012, is in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 23 weeks after its debut. It has sold more than 1.1 million copies.
The still-untitled album will be preceded by "Live While We're Young," the appropriately-titled first single, which comes out Oct. 1. Sevan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk wrote the tune; they are the same team responsible for the band's breakthrough U.S. smash, "What Makes You Beautiful." Also contributing to the new album are Dr. Luke, Ed Sheeran, Tom Fletcher, and Toby Gad.
As you'll recall, One Direction already put tickets for is Spring 2013 U.S. tour on sale more than a year in advance. The U.K. portion includes nine shows at London's O2 Arena.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this morning that Oscar winners Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards. The best news about this announcement for fans of the grand daddy of all awards shows is that after two years Don Misher is no longer behind the scenes as an executive producer. Misher was part of the 83rd Academy Awards which is now considered one of the worst productions in the history of the event.
The BFI London Film Festival has enjoyed mixed fortunes with its opening night slot in recent years. They lucked out in 2008 and 2009, securing highly anticipated world premieres in "Frost/Nixon" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox," attracting unprecedented international media attention to a festival that had never been noted for such publicity coups: its chief purpose, after all, is to bring the highlights of Cannes, Venice, Toronto and the like to local film buffs who don't have the luxury of festival-trotting for a living.
It was an exciting development, but it couldn't last: for the last two years, former LFF director Sandra Hebron kicked off the festival with films that had already premiered in Toronto. And while "Never Let Me Go" was a respectable choice -- if a bit on the glum side for curtain-raising duties -- last year's choice of Fernando Meirelles's dismal, critically savaged "360" (which only recently slumped in and out of US and UK cinemas) was calamitous.
In that respect, Hebron set her Australian successor, Clare Stewart, a pretty low bar to clear. Happily, one needn't have seen "Frankenweenie" to know that she's done so pretty comfortably.


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Saturday, November 15, 2014
The Allure of Nymphets 2nd Edition Books
These are (most of) the books that will be included in the 2nd edition of The Allure of Nymphets. The book will have at least 100 additional pages and it's projected to be released during the early part of the first quarter of 2015.
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Librettist Da Ponte's 16-Year-Old Mistress and Muse for DON GIOVANNI
I wrote about Don Giovanni (1787) on The Allure of Nymphets blog because, Giovanni is an ephebophile. A lot is known about Mozart, the opera's composer, but outside of opera snobs, Lorenzo Da Ponte, the opera's librettist, may not be as well known .
Writers may benefit from what was culled from Memoirs Lorenzo Da Ponte concerning Da Ponte's writing process:
- Like Nabokov, who worked on Eugene Onegin for over 12 hours per day, Da Ponte wrote "for over twelve hours continuous".
- Balzac often wrote for over 12 hours per day as well, while drinking fifty cups of Turkish coffee; however, Da Ponte preferred "a bottle of Tokay to my right," but he drank coffee as well.
- According to Currey's Daily Rituals How Artists Work, Thomas Mann "smoked while writing, but limited himself to twelve cigarettes and two cigars daily"; however, Da Ponte preferred Seville snuff.
- And like the writers I referred to in The Allure of Nymphets, 38-year-old Da Ponte was an ephebophile and used his 16-year-old mistress as a source of inspiration while writing Don Giovanni, which shouldn't be surprising when one considers that Giovanni had an "... outstanding passion is the youthful beginner....provided she wears a skirt."
Saturday, August 23, 2014
An Artist is Above Social Classes
And when an artist like the poet, Lucien Chardon, in Balzac's Lost Illusions doesn't realize this point, he may end up in unfortunate circumstances.
(The readers of The Allure of Nymphets blog may find it interesting to know that Wilson and Nabokov were friends until they got into a fray over Nabokov's translation of Eugene Onegin.)
Thursday, June 26, 2014
"Nocturnal" an Overachievers Battle with Slumber
I quoted former prestigious Stuyvesant high school principal Teitel who used to tell his incoming freshmen, "Grades [i.e. any creative project.], friends, and sleep—choose two."
After reading Gardner's Creating Minds and Mason Currey's Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, I learned that a number of overachievers like Picasso sleep very little compared to the average person.
Not only did the Paris Review reveal that Nabokov worked on the translation and commentary of Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse for over 17 hours per day, I recently read in Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years that Nabokov slept approximately four hours per day.
Lastly, according to a New York magazine profile, James Franco gets very little sleep and Franco fittingly wrote the poem "Nocturnal" in his poetry book Directing Herbert White about his battle with slumber, which I'm confident that a lot of other overachievers could relate to.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
BALZAC'S LOST ILLUSIONS: Advice for Writers
Balzac's Lost Illusions contains some advice for writers. I was referred to Balzac's classic by Nassim Taleb who used Lost Illusions to explain the concept of "silent evidence" in The Black Swan.
Here are a few of the prescriptions for writers:
...men of genius had neither brother or sister, father nor mother; the great works that it is their task to create impose upon them what seems like egoism, oblige them to sacrifice everything to their own greatness. If at first the family must suffer from the exalting absorption of a great brain, later it will reap a hundred fold reward for the many and various sacrifices demanded by the first struggles of shacked nobility and share in the fruits of victory...Bernard Palissy, of Louis XI, Fox, Napoleon, Christopher Columbus, Cesar, all those illustrious gamblers who started life crippled with debts, or as poor men, not understood, regarded as mad, bad sons, bad fathers, bad brothers, but who later became the pride of their family, of the country, of the world. (59-60)
He wants the harvest without the toil...
...time is the capital of those whose intelligence is their only fortune...
Now literary success can only be won in solitude, by persevering labour.
...a taste for luxury, a contempt for our quiet way of life; a love of pleasure and his natural tendency to idleness-the bane of poetic souls.
Take refuge in some attic and write masterpieces, make yourself powerful in any way you will, and you will soon see the world at your feet...
If the present is cold and bare and poverty-stricken, the blue distant future is rich and splendid; most great men have known the vicissitudes which depress but cannot overwhelm me. Plautus, the great comic Latin poet, was once a miller's lad. Machiavelli wrote The Prince at night, and by day was a common working-man like any one else; and more than all, the great Cervantes, who lost an arm at the battle of Lepanto, and helped to win that famous day, was called a 'base-born, handless dotard' by the scribblers of his day; there was an interval of ten years between the appearance of the first part and the second of his sublime Don Quixote for lack of a publisher.
He spent his mornings in studying history at the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve. His very first researches made him aware of frightful errors in the memoirs of The Archer of Charles IX. When the library closed, he went back to his damp, chilly room to correct his work, cutting out whole chapters and piecing it together anew. And after dining at Flicoteaux's, he went down to the Passage du Commerce to see the newspapers at Blosse's reading-room, as well as new books and magazines and poetry, so as to keep himself informed of the movements of the day. And when, towards midnight, he returned to his wretched lodgings, he had used neither fuel nor candle-light. His reading in those days made such an enormous change in his ideas, that he revised the volume of flower-sonnets, his beloved Marguerites, working them over to such purpose, that scarce a hundred lines of the original verses were allowed to stand.
After all, a novel in a drawer is not like a horse in a stable-it does not eat bread. But it won't provide you with any either, and that's a fact.
"Your story is mine, monsieur, and the story of ten or twelve hundred young fellows besides who come from the country to Paris every year. There are others even worse off than we are. Do you see that theatre?" he continued, indicating the turrets of the Odeon. "There came one day to lodge in one of the houses in the square a man of talent who had fallen into the lowest depths of poverty. He was married, in addition to the misfortunes which we share with him, to a wife whom he loved; and the poorer or the richer, as you will, by two children. He was burdened with debt, but he put his faith in his pen. He took a comedy in five acts to the Odeon; the comedy was accepted, the management arranged to bring it out, the actors learned their parts, the stage manager urged on the rehearsals. Five several bits of luck, five dramas to be performed in real life, and far harder tasks than the writing of a five-act play. The poor author lodged in a garret; you can see the place from here. He drained his last resources to live until the first representation; his wife pawned her clothes, they all lived on dry bread. On the day of the final rehearsal, the household owed fifty francs in the Quarter to the baker, the milkwoman, and the porter. The author had only the strictly necessary clothes—a coat, a shirt, trousers, a waistcoat, and a pair of boots. He felt sure of his success; he kissed his wife. The end of their troubles was at hand. 'At last! There is nothing against us now,' cried he.—'Yes, there is fire,' said his wife; 'look, the Odeon is on fire!'—The Odeon was on fire, monsieur. So do not you complain. You have clothes, you have neither wife nor child, you have a hundred and twenty francs for emergencies in your pocket, and you owe no one a penny.—Well, the piece went through a hundred and fifty representations at the Theatre Louvois. The King allowed the author a pension. 'Genius is patience,' as Buffon said. And patience after all is a man's nearest approach to Nature's processes of creation. What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?"
"There is no cheap route to greatness," Daniel went on in his kind voice. "The works of Genius are watered with tears. The gift that is in you, like an existence in the physical world, passes through childhood and its maladies. Nature sweeps away sickly or deformed creatures, and Society rejects an imperfectly developed talent. Any man who means to rise above the rest must make ready for a struggle and be undaunted by difficulties. A great writer is a martyr who does not die; that is all.—There is the stamp of genius on your forehead," d'Arthez continued, enveloping Lucien by a glance; "but unless you have within you the will of genius, unless you are gifted with angelic patience, unless, no matter how far the freaks of Fate have set you from your destined goal, you can find the way to your Infinite as the turtles in the Indies find their way to the ocean, you had better give up at once."
The rare talent, already matured by thought and by a critical habit of mind, a talent developed in solitude, not for publication, but for himself alone and for no other, had suddenly opened for the poet from the provinces a door into the most magnificent palaces of imagination.
Read Goethe's Tasso, the great master's greatest work, and you will see how the poet-hero loved gorgeous stuffs and banquets and triumph and applause. Very well, be Tasso without his folly. Perhaps the world and its pleasures tempt you? Stay with us. Carry all the cravings of vanity into the world of imagination. Transpose folly. Keep virtue for daily wear, and let imagination run riot, instead of doing, as d'Arthez says, thinking high thoughts and living beneath them." (230)
There are a number of other prescriptions for writers in Lost Illusions. If you're a frustrated artist, I recommend the book as an admonishing to keep writing. I propose Kathleen Raine's translation.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Seth Roberts d. April 26, 2014
I learned today that Seth Roberts, who was a Professor of Psychology at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, a bestselling author, and who could be found in the acknowledgments of books by Nassim Taleb and Tim Ferris, passed away.
Seth and I met about eight years ago via my blog Behind the Approval Matrix and soon after that he flew to New York to give a talk to my students. Most recently I spoke about Seth during a talk to a group of Brooklyn College students. That portion of the talk was on the importance of not wasting time/how to read more than one book per week. I related a story about when Seth and I went to the Burger Joint in the Le Parker Meridien hotel and how when I was in line ordering the burgers, Seth, after quickly perusing the hip burger joint with his eyes, pulled out a tattered novel and began reading.
During the past year Seth and I spoke almost every Saturday via Skype, because we were co-writing a book on education. He'll be missed.
Seth and I met about eight years ago via my blog Behind the Approval Matrix and soon after that he flew to New York to give a talk to my students. Most recently I spoke about Seth during a talk to a group of Brooklyn College students. That portion of the talk was on the importance of not wasting time/how to read more than one book per week. I related a story about when Seth and I went to the Burger Joint in the Le Parker Meridien hotel and how when I was in line ordering the burgers, Seth, after quickly perusing the hip burger joint with his eyes, pulled out a tattered novel and began reading.
During the past year Seth and I spoke almost every Saturday via Skype, because we were co-writing a book on education. He'll be missed.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck's Writing Habits and Thoughts on Writing
Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck became a famous and bestselling writer in the African-American community after spending over twenty years of his life as a pimp. Subsequently, his novels made him the most notorious pimp in America. His most famous novel is Pimp: The Story of My Life. The autobiographical novel was published in 1967 by Holloway House.
Ian Whitaker's book Iceberg Slim The Lost Interviews shed some very interesting light on Beck's writing habits. Like Nabokov, Beck would visualize his characters in his head, he wrote for long hours - sometimes up to 18 hours per day, like Proust he was a recluse, and Beck made a compelling analogy between pimping and writing.
- He writes his books out in longhand, filling thick notebooks with manuscript.
- ... I don't want to pimp. I want to be a good writer. I'm coming out of there. And I'm agonizing now with my writing. I'm seeking to do in sentences what it took me paragraphs to do before, and to do in one word what it took me sentences to do in these books.
- Writing books is better than pimping. In fact, it's better than being a doctor or a lawyer. I don't have to go to court, I don't have to go to the hospital to perform an operation. I have no equipment...I don't even need paper; I'll write on the walls. All of my equipment [tapping his head] is in my noggin. And another thing; writing has been a wonderful boon for me, psychologically. The vacuum of ego that existed when I could no longer pimp has been filled most adequately.
- Beck writes up to 18 hours a day...
Q. You have been described as the best-sellingest black author in America. Why is that?
A. ...I would think it's because I've been able to do what any artist must do if he's to rule the greatest possible audience - and that is to bare his emotional structure to the bone. I've noticed the same phenomenon as a speaker. I've been a success as a speaker because I've dared to do that which the audience, collectively, could not do. That is, I have overridden my inhibitions so I can confess. It springs from the soul, brother. So many people are dying and crying out to confess. But they lack the courage.
Q. Doesn't every writer play [g]od?
A. Yes. But one can't play [g]od if one is also a father. One of the handicaps, of course, in being a writer is that one has large numbers of children, responsibilities. Ideally, a writer should be alone. Most writers - if they're married - inevitably, the wife will soon consider the writing a rival. And no writer can reach his peak with this kind of intramural opposition.
Q. Recently, you wrote an article about the loneliness of a super-pimp...
A. Ah, the loneliness...yes, the loneliness. Because you see, the only comparison I could make, as a matter of fact, with the loneliness of a writer is the loneliness of a pimp. I'm not talking about a would-be pimp. I'm talking about someone who really understands what pimping is. And by that I mean: no matter what problems I ever had as a pimp, I never got confidential with any woman...p 100
Q. Usually a writer tries to do more than merely entertain. He tries to inform and persuade.
A. Oh yes. I don't try to persuade. I used to be political. When I first started writing. Nothing is worse than to write with a tendency like that. You can't be a true artist. That's what hobbled most of the young black writers that came up in the 60s. In other words, one must - if he's black or any ethnic - if he's aware of the inequities of this society, purge himself, have that catharsis, through his writing, in order to approach the pristine peak that the artist, the true artist, knows.
Q. Haven't you used the term "Pimping the Page?"
A. But you know why I've never been able to do it? Because of the torturous labor that writing is...If it weren't so gaddam hard man, I could make the analogy [between pimping and selling books]. But it's so hard...
Q. Are you a masochist?
A. I think all writers have to be. I'm talking about the serious writers - like yourself. You know you love it. You love the pain, that lonely pain.
Q. Is there any sadism connected to this?
A. Yeah. We inflict that, we often inflict that upon the audience. You know, two sides of a coin. But invariably, we inflict it upon the people around us, like our wives and our children, when we suffer, you know.
Q. Would you say you've achieved a balance or homeostasis between your inner and the outer realities?
A. Yes. And I've achieved it through what I call "The Overview". The way I interpret "overview" personally is that I will not permit any traumatic event, person or force to deal my writing and my life a fatal blow. I will not gnaw on personal tragedy like some psychotic canine. When the deed has been done to me, whether advertently or inadvertently, I will simply forget that, I don't conduct vendettas against people, objects or circumstances.
- There's a lusting, lusting for that feeling, that sensation, because there is no sensation - even the hell of the writer when he's in the throes of creation, as magnificent as that is - that can compare with the the chemical rush of a speed-ball.
- ... I write long-hand and I have my work typed up. And when I'm not in the physical process of working, that is with pen in hand on paper, then I'm seeming to be day-dreaming. But I'm not. I'm reading on the ceiling characters for yet another story. And I hallucinate their voices and try to get the texture of their voices so I can become acquainted with them. That's why I can write so fast. When I get ready to go to the page. I've already had this prior association with them. And great snatches of dialogue have been written on the ceiling already.
Q. You once were a creature of the night. Do you write at night?
A. Ideally, from 2am to 7 in the morning.
Q. Do you make a lot of money from your books?
A. No. When you say "a lot of money," you know to a pauper a hundred-dollar bill is a fortune. And then a John Paul Getty, a hundred-thousand is a pittance. But I'm not a seeker of fortune. All that I aspire to is to have comforts, and to be cushioned so I can have the most magnificent luxury there is. And that is one of privacy, so that I might write.
Q. Are you satisfied with your progress as a writer so far?
A. No, because I started late. And given the Biblical actuarial estimate, it seems to me that I've got maybe 10 years. And writing being the unconquerable that it is, I wish that I'd started at your age or even younger, so I would at least have some remote chance of becoming the absolute artist. Because every day, every day, is a reminder of how little I know as a writer.
MISTY: He was a strange guy who used to write on paper plates, on napkins, on anything. He did longhand on note pads but he would write on paper plates and things like that.
Q. How easy was if for him to get published?
MISTY: ...He was very let down; it took a minute to get someone to look at Pimp.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Mistakes in THE CATCHER IN THE RYE?
I wrote briefly about J.D. Salinger in the first volume of The Allure of Nymphets, and I did a post about him on the The Allure of Nymphets blog, but I watched Salinger (2013), because I hoped that I would uncover some additional material on the reclusive author for volume two of The Allure of Nymphets.
And I did get some more details about the famous ephebophile. For example, I learned that when Salinger was 30, he told 14-year-old Jean Miller, "I'd like to kiss you goodbye, but you know I can't." And he told Miller's mother, "I'm going to marry your daughter." Salinger and Miller reunited in Manhattan after Miller turned 18. Their relationship was platonic until Miller took the initiative to make it sexual.
The other things I learned about Salinger's ephebophilia I'll save for the book, but I didn't realize that three shootings were associated with the novel e.g., Robert John Bardo's shooting of Rebecca Schaeffer , John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, and Mark David Chapman's shooting of John Lennon.
To uncover some more clues about Salinger's ephebophilia and to find out why the novel was associated with not one, but three shootings, I decided to re-read A Catcher in the Rye (I'm assuming that I read it in high school, but I have absolutely no recollection of what I read in high school.)
I feel a bit like Nabokov, who was not impressed by Dostoevsky, when I write that I wasn't impressed by A Catcher in the Rye. I'm shocked that the novel has sold over 65 million copies and is listed as one of the best books of the previous century. I found the novel to be very bland and not suspenseful; however, I do have two clues as to why it's so popular and why it was associated with two murders.
1. From 1961 to 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was widely censored in high schools and libraries. One of the best forms of publicity for a book is to ban it. If it weren't for the banning of Henry Miller's entertaining Tropic of Capricorn, the novel would probably be obscure.
2. Robert Greene implied in Mastery that the level of effort, emotion, and intensity that a writer puts into his or her writing will be projected to the reader. Therefore, one can project his mindset even when not in the presence of others through his creations (e.g. poetry, art, etc.). Salinger worked on A Catcher in the Rye during his emotionally grueling World War II tour of duty. The fear and emotion that he experienced on the front lines may have been transferred to his writing and consequently to his readers.
Additionally, I was surprised by the number of grammatical errors in The Catcher in the Rye. Admittedly, no man-made book is free of mistakes. And after my books are praised, the comments are often followed by, "But I did notice some mistakes." Nonetheless, I was surprised that a book of this caliber would have so many mistakes.
Here are some mistakes(?) that I recognized in the novel followed by my corrections:
p. 138
First she told me about some Harvard guy - it probably was a freshman, but she didn't say, naturally - that was rushing hell out of her.
First she told me about some Harvard guy - [he] probably was a freshman, but she didn't say, naturally - that was rushing [the] hell out of her.
p. 152
D.B. took Phoebe and I to see it last year.
D.B. took Phoebe and [me] to see it last year.
p. 229
I quick jumped up and ran over and turned off the light over the desk.
I [quickly] jumped up and ran over and turned off the light over the desk.
(When I re-read the sentence, I completely ignored and didn't see the work "quick", which may explain why it eluded the editors and survived all this time. I read "I jumped up and ran over and turned off the light over the desk.")
p. 233
It scared hell out of old Phoebe when I started doing it...
It scared [the] hell out of old Phoebe when I started doing it...
p. 259
... and I didn't have any too much time.
... and I didn't have too much time.
The following aren't mistakes, but I don't recall ever reading a sentence with the words "you" and "in" written twice in a row. Theses sentences would probably be marked as incorrect in a MFA program.
p. 32. "I mean it isn't too nice, naturally, if somebody tells you you don't brush your teeth."
p. 210 "It was all about this play she was in in school."
I'm I missing something here, or is The Catcher in the Rye overrated?
(By the way, you lovers of Salinger and The Catcher in the Rye, don't try to bash me by pointing out the mistakes in this post and my books. That's not the point.)
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Was Nabokov a Hebephile\Ephebophile?
Readers of this blog are most likely familiar with Nabokov's Lolita, but they may not be familiar with his four other books that share a similar theme of hebephilia\ephebophilia with Lolita:
Laughter in the Dark
The Original of Laura
Transparent Things
The Enchanter
Even some of Nabokov's published poetry contains an hebephilia\ephebophilia theme. In "Lilith", which can be found in his Selected Poems (2012), he wrote:
Shielding her face and to the sparkling sun
showing a russet armpit, in a doorway
there stood a naked little girl.
She had a water lily in her curls
and was as graceful as a woman. Tenderly
her nipples bloomed, and I recalled
the springtime of my life on earth,
when through the alders on the river brink
so very closely I could watch the miller's youngest daughter as she stepped
out of the water, and she was all golden,
with a wet fleece between her legs
Thus, was Nabokov a hebephile? Clearly, he was. But did he ever have an age-discrepant relationship? I'm still trying to figure that out.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
#WhatsInYourBag: The Contents of Hugh Person's Knapsack
|Hugh Person's Knapsack Contents from Nabokov's Transparent Things
A popular hashtag on Tumblr and Instagram is #whatsinyourbag. For some reason it's fascinating to view the contents of other's bags. And writers may find it very interesting to read about the contents of Hugh Person's knapsack:
- rough drafts of letters
- an unfinished short story in a Russian copybook
- parts of a philosophical essay in a blue cahier purchased in Geneva
- loose sheets of a rudimentary novel temporarily titled Faust in Moscow
- portable ink
Person is the protagonist in Nabokov's Transparent Things, which like Lolita contains the themes of hebephilia\ephebophilia.
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After years of an active revolving door between banks and their government regulators, their friends in high places are deserting them. Plain talk and sharp criticism are replacing what The New York Times referred to as "a general willingness to assume that everything was fine."
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, noted that "The industry still prizes short-term profit over long-term prudence, today's bonus over tomorrow's relationship." Ms. Lagarde added that "the true role of the financial sector is to serve, not to rule, the economy. Its real job is to benefit people, especially by financing investment and thus helping with the creation of jobs and growth."
At the heart of the new critical spirit by the regulators is a belief that banks are not, in and of themselves, necessarily good things. "In the run-up to the crisis," Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, said, "banking became about banks not businesses; transactions not relations; counterparties not clients. New instruments originally designed to meet the credit and hedging needs of businesses quickly morphed into ways to amplify bets on financial outcomes."


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"Professional environment, good food, nice people. "
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I worked at Cognex as a contractor (less than an year)
Though this was only a short contract the environment was professional and the people were friendly.
The cafeteria food was also pretty good.
For some reason my hiring manager was bothered by the Christian web site I had on my resume.
Don't discriminate against Christians.
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"Fine until I find something better "
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I have been working at CognexPros
There is lots to be done and you can own as many things as you want if you ask for them.Cons
Culture is stifling, people are so over-loaded that no real work with meaningful progress can get done, work life balance is a joke.
"Cutthroat corporate culture with arrogant middle management. "
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I have been working at Cognex full-time (more than 3 years)Pros
The technology is very cool. The algorithms developed by Cognex are world class. Some very smart engineering talent works in Natick. Also, the sales force is extremely motivated, so it is a great place to learn how to effectively sell a technology product.
Company is global, so there are many opportunities to work/travel internationally.Cons
The Cognex culture in Natick is far more corporate (back-stabbing) than you are initially led to believe. The turnover rate, especially in the sales force, is higher than at any other company I've worked for in the past 5 years. In two years, I have seen over 5 people in HR come and go, including an HR Director.
The game room, the cultural events, etc. are all tools used to help people forget how underpaid they are relative to the market.
Also, the cost of living in MA is such that the below-average pay makes it very difficult to work at Cognex and maintain a comfortable quality of life.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Recognize that you need to compensate your developing talent, or else they will take their skills elsewhere. People who have the ability to gain employment elsewhere will eventually leave if they don't feel respected by management. You can gain more through positive motivation rather than threatening people's jobs.Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEO