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The older I get the more convinced I am that good fiction gets closer to reality than 99% of non-fiction.

Grateful I got to live in NYC and experience it for a year when young. An amazing place, like living in a gigantic theater. As an older person it gets harder to assume character; you have to be unusually gifted or a committed eccentric to pull it off.

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What's something expensive you've bought that was actually worth the money?

With all due respect, this trounces computer animation.

I have a sweet tooth, stopped sugar for 2 months. I now allow myself to eat home baked things (like my sons’ birthday cakes). What I notice is the second I taste it a roaring feeling comes, loud and urgent, demanding more. A kind of absurd bloodlust, possession, frenzy. Resist a…

Not sometimes, always.

Fascinating paean to English language.

Interesting cultural insight.

This is very interesting about English with its 'physicality' of the mixing of verbs and prepositions. This explains the visceral difference between f**k, f**k off, and f**k right off! A difference that makes a huge difference!

This is key about English: it's a double-barrelled language. At least two words for similar ideas, but with different shadings if they came from Germanic or Romance.
Also, we dumped grammatical gender! What a big payoff that turned out to be, as languages struggle with doublets.

English’s thousands of phrasal verbs are freaky. You start to notice how freaky when you learn other languages that don’t have them.

''English is the most physical of languages.'

Big love here for verb+preposition constructions, aka phrasal verbs.

Parents of little children live many lifetimes before 9 AM.

Ever had an experience that instantly changed your perspective? What was it?