Hey, I won a book.

Weird Red Room science fiction essay blog contest thingum

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"Where Would I Be If My Father Hadn't Died?"

"Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts."

Allen Ginsberg's writing non-tips

More like wisdoms, child-like enlightenments, perceptual switches, etc.

"No author knows fully what his book means to himself,

from what dark background it emerged,
why he wrote it, nor
what place it has in his personal development.
But sometimes it does happen
that he gets a faint notion of these things,
when favorable circumstances
bring some usually hidden motives to the surface."

--Theodore Reik, Listening with the Third Ear.

More Words Were Written in the World Today

than were written in all of history up to 2003. -Official Statistic.