Really interesting study on how the mind reacts to nonsense. Apparently they tested students by reading each group a story (one nonsensical, one conventional) and the nonsense group tested 30% higher in identifying patterns. Might be worth thinking twice before saying, “That’s just nonsense,” next time. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/health/06mind.html via Carrollian @ the http://alice-in-wonderland.net forums…
Monthly Archives: October 2009
As a young thrush in first flight, or unsteady lamb down mountain rock… So Nature falls from lofty heat into Autumn and her bed of sunset garlands then galloping on Aeolus’s Steeds, turns north to the slow, transfixing kisses of Frost But, falling, her clouds wreath blue horizons and aires of festival entreat ever to [...]
A few years ago I posted something about how lucky I was to have found my wife (then fiancée) because of her unusual taste in TV. It was tongue-in-cheek, of course, because there were and are a lot more reasons to be thankful for her. At the time, however, it seemed funny to me so [...]
rewinding in segments the lever gives pause for bold play in the past-times for warding off thoughts memos random to find memos rise to forget and make peace with confusion a tao of loss
Where linchpins delve and draw forth clubs; Point weaves a cypher and tacks mark finance. In their subconscious, The left hand grip scribbling, outreaches for catskills carves folds in our minds Arrest in an aria a ransom of breath. A runnel’s aphasia The press corps sits mute… Cog/wire/crypt/drake Lock compressed retinae; lids spasming, birth visions, [...]
Pen-tips stab and carve script thoughtless with tongues of fox-fire round my neck. and floor-boards blaze with swampgas visions all clocks perch rigid, hands held tall… Eyes all-seeing, sons of Argus and piteous spectres peek past panes but it’s no letter, or invitation; Malign jibes in soft quatrains Read like a offer from arachnids To [...]
