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Interesting idea to: from Perl, specifically from your sub routine named SaveVariables, call (via commandline) the NoteTab clip that then runs the perl on the current document.
It all seems to work pretty well. Performs rather quick on a not too large doc.
So, you wrote a software application that integrates with NoteTab. Congratulations! There's power to be had with Perl.
You're over my head with the Perl stuff at this point. I'm just begin to get into array and hash let alone your reference, object oriented, namespaces, scalability that Perl has, and whatever else
Does it write to disk/ini each time the replace button is clicked? Or does it only write it if the value(s) have changed from the last button click?
Mostly just merely comments follow--no reply needed, ignore portions or all of them if you choose.
A lot of if elseif if if in a row in that one sub. dunno, but my teacher might recommend a switching or emulated case statement instead (not that it needs be changed--it works good and there's more than one way to do it--teach's reason probly or might be the self documenting code sort of thing--ease 4 a different programmer to step right into, access your code
Your code works very good. A bit hard to follow though (what does it do along the way) without pseudo code
It's rather efficient with my system resources, that's cool, very cool!
Took me a moment to catch on to click the taskbar minimizes the dialog
Probably capability of, in addition to works on current doc, a replace in files feature and a word boundary feature. While I'm at it: a perl/tk visual displayer feature so as to: in a tk widget, display the text and searched for words, the searched for words show up highlighted in color (bright yellow)--the Vim or Gvim editor has such a feature.
I see you made your own dialog instead of using tk::searchdialog module.
In addition to Config::IniFiles module that I'd previously installed, I also needed to install Win32::API module. Win 2k latest build of ActiveState Perl 5.61 (not yet the Perl 5.8 -- I need more round toits every day). dunno if W2k any different default module(s) than your OS.
I wish I had more time. I want to learn Perl/Tk when I the time. My Linux/Unix class going well--after month or two gets into basics of C programming and some Perl
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An effort to crack down on illegal gambling is finding luck in the Legislature.
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Offset Weaving is a six month artist residency run in conjunction with "Office for Art, Design and Technology". Office for Art, Design and Technology is a nomadic, networked and collaborative artist-led project founded by Ryan Hughes ( art-design-tech.org )As part of the residency Easton was given a floor standing tapestry/rug loom. The loom was to be used as a traditional analog tool to make new work. To master the art of weaving Easton made a number of decisions including to not use technology or online tutorials to learn the workings and process of hand weaving. Drawing with the floor standing hand loom has enabled Easton to relearn the art of drawing and create works which hold a true representation of the free flowing drawings of childhood
He longed for weightlessness.
Emulsion on tiled wood.Outline Editions, London 2016
He longed for weightlessness is a project bringing together Easton's previous narrative based works and removing all forms of story.Taking the notion of a 'path' Easton has removed the storyline of a narrative by breaking up a journey and reassembling it as simple plot lines of colour.This allows the audience to view the work on a pure primal level, experiencing a base emotion without the transference of ones own past relative experiences. Enabling the audience to connect with one and other in a shared space.
A mixture of various hand stitched works as part of a personal exploration into overlay colour and offset printing using thread.
'His Piety knows no bounds'
Interactive quilt,
250cm x 200cm.
Working in collaboration with composer Michael Tanner, sound artist Gawain Hewitt and the 'Quirky Quilters' Easton has created his first interactive quilt.
Using four major life events of St Nicholas as the starting point for this work Easton has created a large scale quilt embedded with a narrative specific composition by Michael Tanner. The audience is invited to created a dialogue with the piece by gently interacting with the hand embroidered centre piece.His piety knows no bounds was made for the contemporary craft residency and commissions for 'The Priory', in Stoke Sub Hamdon, Somerset.Curated by Craftspace and Initiated by Somerset Art Works in partnership with the National Trust
The large tithe barn within The Priory complex, a rare and unique group of medieval domestic and agricultural buildings, is the focus of this contemporary craft project. The title 'Gather-ing' references the function of a barn as a space to collect/bring/gather people, animals and crops, as well as a symbolic meeting place to gather for ritual celebration.
Breaking the traditional boundaries of craft, Stewart Easton's 'The Next Verse' fuses together hand embroidery, sonic art and music.
Collaborating with sound artist Gawain Hewitt and musician Michael Tanner (Plinth, United Bible Studies) Easton's stitch work forms a meter square interactive embroidery that follows the life cycle of a fictional family.
The major plot lines of 'A Winter's Movement' are hand stitched by Easton using conductive thread and a soundtrack composed by Tanner is triggered by touch, each person creating their unique soundscape.
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300cm x 22cm. 2010
A burden of bones is a narrative tracing the final journey of an elderly lady trailing her last five days.On the eve of her 143rd birthday, Hetty Brown has a premonition that she has five days left to live. After careful meditation on this news Hetty decides to exhume her husbands bones and travels to the tree where 120 years before she accepted his proposal of marriage.
A burden of bones is one of four large scale embroidered pieces made as part of Easton's four tragic tales which was shown at mac, Birmingham, UK, and St Mary's art and retreat centre, Nervada, USA.


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A pioneer in organic agriculture in New England, Bill Duesing has been as an environmental educator, writer, artist, and lecturer over for four decades. After graduating from Yale University (1964), Duesing worked as a Cooperative Extension agent before turning to organic principles in the early 1970s, and from 1979 to 1983, he served as Extension Energy Agent for New Haven County, working with the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service.
Working toward a socially just and environmentally sound future, Duesing has long emphasized sustainability and greater local food sufficiency. He has been instrumental in developing organic standards for gardening and land care and served as both founding president and later executive director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association Connecticut and president of the NOFA Interstate Council. He has also been a notable proponent of using simple solar technologies to address problems ranging from health care to pollution, and has been involved in education to put theory into practice. Between 1983 and 1987, Duesing developed an innovative series of hand-on courses in food, energy, and agriculture for schools in New Haven and Bridgeport as part of the University of Connecticut High School in the Community curriculum development project.
During the 1990s, Duesing produced two radio shows, "Living on the Earth" (WSHU) and "The Politics of Food" (WPKN), and he is author of Living on the Earth: Eclectic Essays for a Sustainable and Joyful Future (1993). His collection of essays Living on the Earth was published by Long River Press in 1993, and he has been a regular contributor to the Low Tech Page for plain: The Magazine of Life, Land and Spirit. He and his wife Suzanne continue to operate the Old Solar Farm in Oxford, Conn.
The Duesing collection consists of transcripts of his radio show, "Living on the Earth," which was broadcast over station WSHU (91.1 FM), 1990-2000, and fourteen recordings of "The Politics of Food," broadcast monthly over WPKN (89.5 FM) in Bridgeport in 1997-1998. Each half hour segment of "Politics" included news, a fifteen minute interview, recipes, and tips, with interviewees including Mel Bristol, Jac Smit, Vincent Kay, John Wargo, Hugh Joseph, Joseph Kiefer, Julie Rawson, Michael Sligh, Kathy Lawrence, Lee Warren, and Elizabeth Henderson.
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Gift of Bill Duesing, 2012.
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Kakera Compilation vol.1 is a compilation album by Ceramic Records. It contains 8 tracks, sung by Hatsune Miku and GUMI.
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Ok so I was board last night and was thinking about ideas for a project and was looking through my parts drawers for inspiration and seen a broken chassis and a spare whole one. I decided to try and mount them together and when I did that I sat down and looked across the room at my 1/10 summit. I grabbed the body and the wheel base is almost right. got to shorten the chassis a bit but Its close. Then I grabbed my merv with 2.2 mudslingers and compared the summit to the mervs wheel stance. Just right! Then I got thinking, extended chassis, with two 380 motors, one for the front tires and one for the back. Ill get two traxxas 4 channel 2.4 ghz receivers the extra channels for say lights and maybe to switch the front motor off(I have ideas already ) and go 2wd on command. Its all in the works, ive started ordering parts I think this could be sweet!! Im gonna gear down super low and Im looking at truck body's with similar wheel base to the summit, I even thinking about rear steering idk yet. Here are some pics of the chassis(not the finished product, gonna fab up braces ect) and wheel base and what not.
I know the chassis is backwards in that one lol
I'd love to try another inch of wheelbase but........
You'd need a cage over the whole thing to act as a truss so it does not fold in half
Hey, make a limo !!!!
There are lots of ways to do that. Most are wrong.
just put in an order lol ... lol
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This is a crazy concept BUT it can be done. My friend made a stretched rustler by combining 2 chassis' and it works good, all he does is drag race and speed runs.
* "If it ain't broke, your doin it wrong" *
Sounds like twice the fun!
first shipment is in XD
epic. This should be great. I think i has a broken chassis or two. Don't start giving me ideas.
Good stuff
Let the fabrication begin
cool project, is it going to be a rock crawler?
With great brushless comes great responsibility.
This is an awesome idea! I'm keeping an eye on this
What's a coffee if it aint Irish
Seems like a lot of money spent and for not much more then buying a 10th scale truck.
It will be cool if you get it finished and it works out alright. You will definatly have the one of a kind going for you.
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Update. Got my body in its a pro line 1972 chevy c10 longbed body. Im thinking I may have to go with slash arms, rods, etc cause the body is not quite wide enough. I was also thinking on my way to work of a problem. If I go with the 2wd and 4wd on the fly way I would be using up batteries at different paces and that would not be good I quickly drew up plans (in my head) for a 4 way parallel connector. Should be really easy to make seeing as I am an electrician lol
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ok so I have ruffed in the chassis. just two braces and its SUPER strong!! I kind of rushed them cause I had to do it on my break at work so they are not the straightest cut but what ever.
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That doesn't look very sturdy at all. I would expect it to brake on the fist impact or possibly wheelie. It needs a lot more then two screws per end of the thin metal.
Not sure how far the heads protrude into the battery trays but where do you plan to put the batteries?
the plates are threaded and the screw heads are thin. I am using rhino 1750 mah 2 cell lipos which are thinner than the traxxas lipos so they fit fine. And like i said it is just a rough in I still plan on adding to it. It is also not going to be hitting high speeds and will not be a basher. I was trying to bend or break it by hand and could not. thanks for the input though, any and all ideas are welcome
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Nice. And they double as skid plates!
How is this working out for you? Very anxious to see it drive. I love the creative idea but I have zero confidence in the chassis.
Ok here is an update. FIRST is I think it is going to be more of a 1/14-1/12 scale truck. Its slow moving do to I work 6 days a week 13 hours a day but parts are coming in To custemaxx1 I still have more braces I want to add in and its alot stronger than it looks anyway here are some pics. I have made the rear diff locked with a gasket adhesive.
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Like I said not wishing it to brake but hoping to push you to make it stronger so it doesn't.
Good luck!
Anyway, was going to ask if you'll be rigging up 4 batteries to run since you have the space ?
What's a coffee if it aint Irish
Is it a MERV with this blue pickup body?
shes coming together slowly but surly
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Much better body for it
What's a coffee if it aint Irish
well got her in a working condition, this baby has torque!! 55t spur 16t pinion and a flipped tranny. Picked up some rc4wd rock creepers for 25$ slightly used!! Lots of pieces are temp cause Im waiting on upgraded parts but I got to say so far I am super impressed!! cant wait to finish it
as you can see I borrowed the double spring set up idea from revoman78, man great idea!! here is the link to his thread
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i think your desstinately gonna wanna get some wheel wideners for it lol
Looks good with that body on it.
Nice work, hope to see it running soon in a video!
Summit RX8/1550kv-Slash4x4 MM2/2400kv Twin-V Merv.
you NEED to add some vertical bracing to go with the horizontal bracing. All this work, and it is just going to bend right in the middle within a couple runs. If not on the first run. Id add some bracing to the drive shaft tunnel.
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id try to put a slash 4x4 drive shaft on it.
So another update. I've run about 6 sets off packs on her and I'm so very impressed with it at this stage. Chassis is holding up great!! I still need to fab up some more braces but I did install my integy slash roll cage and Its provided lots of structural integrity as well and it fits nicely under the chevy body. although seeing it gives me lots of new ideas hes a few pics I was board thought I would share
The only thing so far I'm having problems with is with having this much torque I'm twisting out drivshafts like mad so I ordered some GPM steel driveshafts
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Hey Love it So Far it has been one amazing journey Watching this grew.. But i like To mod my Car like my Grave digger 1/16 and i was able to run a 5000 mah 2s lipo 30c in my truck, do you think you can mod it too run 2 5000 mah in parallel too power each system!!!
Yupper doodles
I like the cage for added stiffness but I would add some vertical stifeners to the chassis connectors. Get some angle aluminum and add one on each side.
Once it brakes you will have a lot more pain in the butt fixing it.
... Anyway, new parts some for this build some not
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Things are going slow on this build as I am working lots and buying a new house ( hello new workshop ) but I was looking at a 1/10 slash body I painted up a while ago and still have not used and this it the result
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Despite the fact they were screened every three months and treated when infected, the proportion of infected girls did not change over the course of the study. On entering the study, 10.9 percent of the young women were infected. After 18 months of participation, 10.6 percent were infected; 10.4 percent were infected at the four-year mark.
Eighty-four percent of repeated infections were reinfections. In spite of being so highly motivated that they kept diaries of their sexual encounters and interacted at least quarterly with the study staff, some of the young women had unprotected sex with either an untreated partner or a new partner and subsequent infection occurred. The researchers determined that 13 percent of repeated infections were due to failure of antibiotics to cure an earlier infection; considering all infections, antibiotic treatment was 92.1 percent effective.
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Highly motivated.
Nonetheless, the testing can be done with urine, non-invasively, and the battle needs to be continued.
When you politicized diseases like AIDS, HPV, and Clemydia to say "this affects minorities and homosexuals" or "women only" and don't test and treat infections among boys as well (as with the HPV vaccine) you will find carrierd repeatedly reinfecting some persons.
abortion makes pregnancies go away but does nothing to reduce the spread of STDs and the damage they can cause.
Maybe not this way: "In spite of being so highly motivated that they kept diaries of their sexual encounters..."
Why not videos? Why not accept that you can't make it with anything that walks and not pay a price?
Maybe the "urban teenage girls" should be doing better "screening".
If they somehow thought screening would reduce the incidence of the disease, they obvioualy are confused about how the disease is spread.
The left is constantly trying to figure out a way to make the progressive project work. Not too far after the realization that "screening is ineffective" is an abject sense of letdown, despair, and frustration; and after that comes their desire to start up the pogroms.
Fools, treating the girls is useless if they keep getting reinfected.
It makes no sense to me. Other than to keep some social program going, that is.
Keeping a pay check coming for doing nothing.
Well the good news is..in time this will reduce the number of abortions because many of these girls will end up sterile.
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Bold, lyrical, and prodigious, Soul Moutain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor and delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of the individual self.
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THE RECENTLY translated masterpiece from the new Nobel laureate, Gao Xingjian, is a product of the author's experimentation with words, his exploration of the boundaries of conventional forms and his belief in the uniqueness of a literary voice. In important ways, the book is about the struggle of the individual over the interests of the group. Gao's protagonist is a composite character alternately portrayed as "You," "I," "She" and "He." In one chapter, Gao sheds light on his nameless characters: "In this lengthy soliloquy you are the object of what I relate...as I listen to myself and you, I let you create a she...You who are the partner of my conversation transforms my experiences and imagination into your relationship with her...She who is the creation of experience and imagination transforms into various images." "He" is created when "You" and "I" merge and become inseparable; when the need arises to incorporate a distinguishable space. What is most notable about these pronouns is that they are never grouped together into "We": "When I speak of me and you...I never speak of we or us...[T]hey are all the more substantial than what is known as we."
With its unconventional plot, Soul Mountain, which explores China's physical, cultural, historical and political landscapes, is charged with creative energy and artistic audacity. It interweaves myriad stories that "You" and "I" encounter while traveling, recollect from memories, glean from history or fabricate from imagination. The stories' settings range from contemporary China to ancient timesfrom the notorious Cultural Revolution to China's earliest empires. They cover locations ranging from the metropolitancapital to the remotest regions of southwest China, where ethnic groups coexist with primeval forests. They fuse Eastern and Western philosophies, from Taoism to Buddhism to Existentialism. In short, the book merges fact and fiction, past and present, legend and biography in unique ways that baffle, dazzle, excite and enlighten the reader.
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Gao addressed the benefits of "cold observation," a means toward achieving higher levels of lyricism. "Poetry is hidden in such detached observation. If this observing eye also examines the writer himself, then even the sufferings and garbage of the world can stand scrutiny...While it causes pain and disgust, it also arouses compassion, pity and love and appreciation of life."
This is precisely what Gao does with Soul Mountain; he captures plights of human sufferings, invoking the tragedies suffered as a result of political dictatorship. By extension, he probes the inner self, the meaning of existence, the complexity of individual human relationships with society and nature. Throughout the book, Gao adeptly illuminates critical scenes with well-placed details: "I have in [my backpack] a Han Dynasty brick with a design on it," he writes. "I came across it in Hezhang where peasants were constructing pig pens with bricks taken from the Han Dynasty tombs." Such images, which speak volumes on behalf of a people plagued by one political movement after another, highlight the absurdities of benightedness and the destruction propagated by the Cultural Revolution.
Despite Gao's achievement, this new translation of his book is marred by flaws and inconsistencies. Not only is some of the original, graceful flow of the prose lost in the English translation but, just as unfortunately, the translation itself is riddled with mistakes. The language often reads awkwardly, such as in the line "His death takes place two years before I come here," or "So there is therefore still the unextinguished passion of a soul still being tormented." In the translator's hands, 1 million yuan shrinks to one hundred, while a portrait of Lao-tzu (the father of Taoism) by the famous artist Zhang Daqian changes to a portrait of Zhang Daqian's own father. "Middle school," which is the equivalent of junior and senior high school, is translated variably into middle school, high school and even primary school. In several places, the Chinese word "Haiba" is incorrectly used. "Haiba" is a transliteration of the word "elevation" and the term "above sea level." The translator, unfamiliar with its meaning, capitalizes it and treats it as the name of a place. The line that ends "...in the 2,500-meter giant panda observation compound at Haiba" should actually read as "...in the giant panda observation campground at 2,500 meters above sea level." These examples are just a few of the many inaccuracies that do a disservice to the original Chinese edition.
Soul Mountain is a colossal, encompassing work that was written, according to the metafictional narrator, "without conforming to the method [of fiction] which is common knowledge." This is not an easy read, and the mistakes in translation add an unnecessary element of confusion. The book is like a patchwork quilt made from rich, diversified fabrics in bold, original patterns; though the translation introduces crooked stitches, Gao's achievement still dazzles and delights.
New York Times Book Review
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- 9780060936235
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date:
- 10/28/2001
- Series:
- Harper Perennial
- Edition description:
- Reprint
- Pages:
- 528
- Sales rank:
- 710,606
- Product dimensions:
- 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.18(d)
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Chapter One
The old bus is a city reject. After shaking in it for twelve hours on the potholed highway since early morning, you arrive in this mountain county town in the South.
In the bus station, which is littered with ice-block wrappers and sugar cane scraps, you stand with your backpack and a bag and look around for a while. People are getting off the bus or walking past, men humping sacks and women carrying babies. A crowd of youths, unhampered by sacks or baskets, have their hands free. They take sunflower seeds out of their pockets, toss them one at a time into their mouths and spit out the shells. With a loud crack the kernels are expertly eaten. To be leisurely and carefree is endemic to the place. They are locals and life has made them like this, they have been here for many generations and you wouldn't need to go looking anywhere else for them. The earliest to leave the place traveled by river in black canopy boats and overland in hired carts, or by foot if they didn't have the money. Of course at that time there were no buses and no bus stations. Nowadays, as long as they are still able to travel, they flock back home, even from the other side of the Pacific, arriving in cars or big air-conditioned coaches. The rich, the famous and the nothing in particular all hurry back because they are getting old. After all, who doesn't love the home of their ancestors? They don't intend to stay so they walk around looking relaxed, talking and laughing loudly, and effusing fondness and affection for the place. When friends meet they don't just give a nod or a handshake in the meaningless ritual of city people, but rather they shout the person's name or thump him on the back. Hugging is also common, but not for women. By the cement trough where the buses are washed, two young women hold hands as they chat. The women here have lovely voices and you can't help taking a second look. The one with her back to you is wearing an indigo-print headscarf. This type of scarf, and how it's tied, dates back many generations but is seldom seen these days. You find yourself walking towards them. The scarf is knotted under her chin and the two ends point up. She has a beautiful face. Her features are delicate, so is her slim body. You pass close by them. They have been holding hands all this time, both have red coarse hands and strong fingers. Both are probably recent brides back seeing relatives and friends, or visiting parents. Here, the word xifu means one's own daughter-in-law and using it like rustic Northerners to refer to any young married woman will immediately incur angry abuse. On the other hand, a married woman calls her own husband laogong, yet your laogong and my laogong are both used. People here speak with a unique intonation even though they are descendants of the same legendary emperor and are of the same culture and race.
You can't explain why you're here. It happened that you were on a train and this person mentioned a place called Lingshan. He was sitting opposite and your cup was next to his. As the train moved, the lids on the cups clattered against one another. If the lids kept on clattering or clattered and then stopped, that would have been the end of it. However, whenever you and he were about to separate the cups, the clattering would stop, and as soon as you and he looked away the clattering would start again. He and you reached out, but again the clattering stopped. The two of you laughed at the same instant, put the cups well apart, and started a conversation. You asked him where he was going.
"Lingshan, ling meaning spirit or soul, and shan meaning mountain."
You'd been to lots of places, visited lots of famous mountains, but had never heard of this place.
Your friend opposite had closed his eyes and was dozing. Like anyone else, you couldn't help being curious and naturally wanted to know which famous places you'd missed on your travels. Also, you liked doing things properly and it was annoying that there was a place you've never even heard of You asked him about the location of Lingshan.
"At the source of the You River," he said, opening his eyes.
You didn't know this You River either, but was embarrassed about asking and gave an ambiguous nod which could have meant either "I see, thanks" or "Oh, I know the place". This satisfied your desire for superiority, but not your curiosity. After a while you asked how to get there and the route up the mountain.
"Take the train to Wuyizhen, then go upstream by boat on the You River."
"What's there? Scenery? Temples? Historic sites?" you asked, trying to be casual.
"It's all virgin wilderness."
"Ancient forests?"
"Of course, but not just ancient forests."
"What about Wild Men?" you said, joking.
He laughed without any sarcasm, and didn't seem to be making fun of himself which intrigued you even more. You had to find out more about him.
"Are you an ecologist? A biologist? An anthropologist? An archaeologist?"
He shook his head each time then said, "I'm more interested in living people."
"So you're doing research on folk customs? You're a sociologist? An ethnographer? An ethnologist? A journalist, perhaps? An adventurer?"
"I'm an amateur in all of these."
The two of you started laughing.
"I'm an expert amateur in all of these!"
The laughing made you and him cheerful. He lit a cigarette and couldn't stop talking as he told you about the wonders of Lingshan...
Text copyright © Gao Xingjian 1990 English language translation copyright © Mabel Lee 2000
Meet the Author
Gao Xingjian (whose name is pronounced gow shing-jen) is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he has lived in France since 1987. Gao Xingjian is an artistic innovator, in both the visual arts and literature. He is that rare multitalented artist who excels as novelist, playwright, essayist, director, and painter. In addition to Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible, a book of his plays, The Other Shore, and a volume of his paintings, Return to Painting, have been published in the United States.
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I finished 'Soul Mountain' today. It is hard to describe. It may well be his travelling memoirs and is not a novel in that sense. He hints at some of his anxiety and unsettledness about his life throughout the 500 pages, but he is more focused in the last 10 or so chapters. The author peppers his memories and accounts through other people with sarcasm and hatred of what happened politically. He got more creative and less duty bound to writing rules as he moved along. His descriptions of nature and landscapes might easily have been the written form of his painting. The images of this ancient culture shine with fantastic ghosts, totems, animals, human violence and brutality. Would I recommend it? I enjoyed the folk tales, mythology, history, but I didn't think his writing was always sensational. Perhaps, it was the translation, but the translator did a good job to make it flow. Some of his discussions of ego and I and separateness have been better dealt with by other thinkers, but this was a personal journey and not an academic treatise on consciousness or existentialism. I enjoyed his jaunts into the wilderness and isolated areas of his country.
This book is amazing! I don't understand why it gets such low reviews. It's deep and incredibly artistic. The dialogue is absolutely amazing.
Must read.
Beautifully written, somehow stitched together with folklore and Chinese imagery. I originally read it two years ago and I will read it again this winter. The journey was long and somewhat precarious, however this text was like a drink of water to a parched soul.
Our bookclub thought this sounded like a great novel until we actually started reading it. We called an emergency meeting and decided we had to choose something else. We determined that either something got lost in the translation or we just weren't "zen" enough to follow Gao Xingjian's thought process. Pardon the cliches, but while I admire Gao Xingjian perseverence in the face of adversity,I think that maybe some of his deeper thoughts were better left unsaid. I'll sum it up by quoting a passage found on page 114 "...no existence,no non-existence, no existence and no non-existence; non-existence exists so there is non-existence of existence; non-existence of existence exists so there is non-existence of non-existence..." I think Mr. Xingjian might want to consider a career in writing those over the top novels we were all assigned in college.
What a bizarre book. I would not call it a novel but streams of consciousness loosely strung together. The book lacks plot and character development so it does not meet the definition of novel. Some profound points are made but it is too difficult getting through the mysticism to find the meaning of life in this book. It is enjoyable but boring and just too odd to really get lost in.
Without any published manifesto, something seems to have been developing at the end of the 20th century that looks awfully good for the life of the spirit. Writers with little else to connect them have been emerging from the underworld of Post-World-War-II despair and sense of disappointment with life and the meaningless of human experience. Brilliant as they have been, the carnival mazes constructed by novelists to divert us from the wasteland outside their fictional fairgrounds seem to be packing up. Serious fiction, without nostalgia or pollyanna optimism is suddenly looking up and asking, 'O.K. What now?' Without any denial of the difficulties of being human, the pain and uncertainty of our cosmic status and without illusions about our ability to transcend the limitations of our own flawed humanity, Jose Saramago in Blindness, Matt Ash in Islands, Islands, Islands, and now Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian have set their protagonists on painful journeys. In Blindness a man sitting in his car at a stoplight in Lisbon goes suddenly blind and is left to make his way through the streets of a city in which all around him are also going blind. In Islands, the protagonist is dumped by his wife and fired from his job in the first two pages and is set on a journey around the world in search of some meaning to his wandering. The line between author and narrator/character is as blurred in Soul Mountain as it is in both other novels: Gao himself was diagnosed with lung cancer, only to learn six weeks later that the diagnosis was false. Having smelled death so close, and feeling the heat from communist authorities in Beijing, Gao fled into the mountains and forest of Sichuan. Saramago's narrator is, like Saramago himself, blind; the protagonist of Ash's Islands is the pseudo-autobiographical Matt Ash. Each of these Homeric journeys begins with damaged and shipwrecked people, and each novel has an episodic quality, as free of predictable form as any hike up an unexplored path in the mountains. And each character, so much alone, encounters strange, exotic, sometimes mad and dangerous but often playful, joyous and magically real human beings. These are never 'guides' or mystical 'wisemen' in the tradition of medieval quest stories. They are simply human and very much alive and real. If these are characters in search of an 'answer', none of the three ever finds that ultimate solution--and neither does the reader. Gao's narrator never finds the secret of soul mountain, but what he does discover is the very tactile magic of the real, of the human beings and lives and stories that they have to tell him. Their truth is that it is the searching itself that matters and that all of us are wanderers together. While Saramago, Ash and Gao begin with isolated and lonely men seeking only survival in a dangerous and painful land, all three of their heroes seem almost to stumble upon the loveliness of the moment and the immediate experience of those individuals they encounter and of the joy of the 'community' that each has fled or been exiled from. And that is exactly the experience that the reader will have while reading Soul Mountain or Blindness or Islands: the fascination with the immediate place, person, or story on the page at that moment. Not every reader will be comfortable with novels centered on such flawed and damaged characters as these, or with books that raise unanswerable questions--then choose to leave them unresolved, nor with stories so circular and endless that the only thing you are left with at the end is the experience itself of what Kurt Vonnegut's Tralfamadorians tell Billy Pilgrim are 'the many marvellous moments' encountered along the way. One could argue about the meaning of 'Humanism'--Classical, Secular, New or Newer--but what Gao, Ash and Saramago offer us (perhaps learned from Gabriel Garcia Marquez) seems to me to constitute a resurgence of Humanism for the 21st Century. At first glance, t
this is one heck of a novel where there is no plot,chacracter development or anything else you would find in an ordinary novel. It is like chunks of information that is put together.I Wouldn't recommend it.
Ok, so I had to read this book for school and at first I thought it wouldn't be too bad. But it was so confusing. I mean I understood that every other chapter 'you' were the main character, but he literally started in one chapter saying how he got lost on a mountain and leaves you hanging on how he got off and the next chapter after the 'you' he tells of how he literally got stuck in the mud while deciding whether or not to steal a boat. He even writes 'well, what should I talk about now?' and blabbers on and on about things that don't tie in with anything. I was so fed up with it and wanted to rip it to shreds. Not a good read for anyone in my opinion.
This wonderfully written novel explores the evils of the cultural revolution, the beauty of China, it's culture, and people, and the existential conflict of individuality and community. Although this story does not have a plot, it is still an engaging and beautiful read. Mabel Lee deserves many accolades for her wonderful translation. I have to admit, that the first time I attempted to read this book, two years ago, I couldn't get into it. For some reason it resonates much stronger with me now. I recommend reading Mabel Lee's introduction. I also think that finishing a difficult novel, especially one so rich in spirituality, is very rewarding.


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For the first time in a few years, change abounds. New opportunities, new people, new ways of working. Change is a friend not a foe and often signals opportunity more often than not. Each change seemingly a positive bit of momentum towards something better.
Author: benry
Art or business?
Jill Magid, the artist, reframing a situation:
In 2002, as an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie, in Amsterdam, Magid began noticing the large number of surveillance cameras in the city—anonymous gray boxes, mounted on everything from the corners of buildings to coffee-shop awnings. One February morning, she went to the police headquarters and explained that she was an artist interested in decorating the municipal cameras with rhinestones. She was directed to the appropriate police administrators, who told her that they did not work with artists. She thanked them and left. A few weeks later, Magid returned, armed with business cards and a corporate-speak sales pitch, presenting herself as the Head Security Ornamentation Professional at System Azure, a company that she had made up. The police not only allowed her to bedazzle the cameras but even paid her a couple of thousand dollars. "I realized that they could not hear me when I spoke as an artist," Magid later said. "This had nothing to do with what I proposed but with who I was."
Source: The New Yorker
The mind of an architect
In the early 1950s, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) at the University of California, Berkeley began developing new and different ways to analyze personalities. The scientists at IPAR attempted what many thought was impossible: to study creativity in a methodical and scientific way, working to determine what specific personality traits make certain people creative.
IPAR found that creative people tend to be nonconforming, interesting, interested, independent, courageous and self-centered, at least in general. Creatives could make unexpected connections and see patterns in daily life, even those lacking high intelligence or good grades.
Source: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-mind-of-an-architect/
Time capsule
In 2012, Russian workers repairing a statue of Lenin unearthed a time capsule with a letter from a Soviet youth group from 1979. It reads, in part: ''Let your character be courageous. Let your songs be happier. Let your love be hotter. We do not feel sorry for ourselves, because we are certain you will be better than us.''
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On controlling the narrative
There are different ways to control a narrative. There's the old-fashioned way: Classify documents that you don't want seen and, as Gates said, ''keep mum on the details.'' But there's also the more modern, social-media-savvy approach: Tell the story you want them to believe. Silence is one way to keep a secret. Talking is another. And they are not mutually exclusive.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/what-do-we-really-know-about-osama-bin-ladens-death.html


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The Obama administration is overstating the need and benefit of rules to cut national smog pollution, according to a study released by the American Petroleum Institute, the largest U.S. oil and gas lobby group.
The Environmental Protection Agency's statements about the proposal to cut ground-level ozone, a main ingredient of smog, "grossly misrepresent what EPA is actually estimating as the potential benefits of reducing public exposures to ozone," according to the report released today by API and prepared by NERA Economic Consulting of New York.
The EPA's ozone standards, which the agency has delayed adopting amid industry opposition, would tighten regulations issued under President George W. Bush in 2008. The EPA estimates that the rules would save as much as $100 billion a year in medical expenses and missed work days caused by the effect of smog, offsetting about $90 billion in annual costs.
"EPA says the benefits are about equal to the costs," Howard Feldman, API director of science and regulatory affairs, said today on a conference call with reporters. "This conclusion is highly suspect because the assumptions the agency uses are suspect."
API said its study found that the EPA's analysis relies on cuts in soot pollution that may occur because of the rule. Such reductions have "nothing to do with ozone" and negate statements that tightening the Bush-era ozone standards will produce greater benefits than costs, according to the study.
Ozone is formed when chemicals from burning fossil fuels combine with sunlight near the ground.
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Representatives of API released the study before meeting today with White House budget officials to discuss the pending rules, according to the Washington-based lobbying group.
President Barack Obama is committed to setting standards that are based on science, not politics, a White House official said on July 26 when asked about suggestions of political interference. The president believes that the cost and effects on local communities and businesses must be weighed in crafting any new rule, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the regulation isn't yet final.
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The API is among industry groups and companies calling on the Obama administration to put reconsideration of the 2008 Bush standards on hold until 2013, when a review is required by law. Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must evaluate such rules every five years. The agency says it's tightening the standards now because the Bush administration ignored recommendations from the EPA's scientific advisory panel.
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The internet can be a scary place sometimes. Back doors,trojan horses,malware,and spyware among many other things. One of my goals with moving hosting and self building a web stack was to be able to enable SSL across the site, and I'm happy to say that after much banging together of rocks the site is now fully served via HTTPS. This will help prevent MITM (Man-In-The-Middle) type attacks among other things. While I honestly don't expect my little part of the internet to come
Cleaning Up
Hello World! Welcome to the new website for anyone that finds this. I'm still in the process of setting up the projects part of the site, so unfortunately there's no access to games and other stuff I'm currently working on. I'll be keeping change logs and updates on this main page, and once the projects site is launched, links to it as well. On a more technical level involving the new website, I've swapped to a cloud-based host DigitalOcean, which will allow much more freedom than