Literature’s most fiendish head-scratchers
For all of you out there with time on your hands and no codes to crack, The Guardian offers a selection of riddles from literature. Get pondering…
e.g. #6:
“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’” – the Mad Hatter to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Solve the riddles
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Kerouac’s On The Road turned into Google driving directions
Gregor Weichbrodt, a German college student, took all of the geographic stops mentioned in On the Road, plugged them into Google Maps, and ended up with a 45-page manual of driving directions, divided into chapters paralleling those of Kerouac’s original book. You can read the manual — On the Road for 17,527 Miles– as a free ebook.
Go On the Road
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“My List of Writing Mistakes”
Best way of learning: do, and fail. Next time you’ll do better. Howard Andrew Jones keeps a list of mistakes he made already so that he won’t repeat them. This strikes me as wise.
e.g.
When you’re stuck moving the plot
Introduce character with info
Send in the ninjas
Read the article
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THIS ‘n THAT
10 Insane Buildings
Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Coming in 2016, Taipei’s double-helix-shaped Agora Garden Tower will split the difference between man and Mother Nature. The twisty, 20-story luxury residential building will be green in every sense of the word, with balconies on each floor to support gardens, and state-of-the-art sustainable features including solar cells and rainwater recycling.
10 Insane Buildings
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The Color of…
Burning brandy. The color, flame-of-burnt-brandy, was described in 1821 by one ladies’ magazine as a mixture of “lavender grey, pale yellow, and dark lilac.”
Other equally evocative names dating from the same period include dragon’s blood (a deep purplish-red), d’oreille d’ours (a rich brown, literally “bear’s ears”), elephant’s breath (steel grey) and flamme de Vesuve (“the flame of Vesuvius,” or the color of lava).”
19 Colors You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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Poetry can help students learn in ways that prose can’t.
Why teaching poetry is so important
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10 of the oldest surviving books in the world
The Etruscan Gold Book is estimated to be 2,673 years old.
The oldest books
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Quote of the Day
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Alma Alexander
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