They don’t literally forget who they are, since their actual beliefs and desires remain the same. (Put in terms of the model: their Belief and Desire boxes retain their original contents.) However, fully immersed actors ‘forget themselves’ in the sense that they actively ignore facts about who they are, temporarily subordinating their own thoughts and feelings to those of their character. Actors forget their identities like stoners forget the quadratic formula. The information isn’t gone – just temporarily offline. – Aeon
Tag: 04.18.19
Colm Tóibín Faces Down Testicular Cancer
On “chemo brain”: “It was not merely that the chemo left me fully thoughtless so that as time went on I could not even read; the effect of the drug darkened the mind or filled it with something hard and severe and relentless. It was like pain or a sort of anguish, but those words don’t really cover it. Everything that normally kept the day going, and the mind, was reduced to almost zero.” – London Review of Books
Why Are TV Writers Are Firing Their Agents? (The People Who Get Them Work)??
We have questions. New York Magazine’s Jordan Crucchiola has some answers. – New York Magazine
Censorship In Prison Libraries — How Far Does It Go?
“The public doesn’t really know the extent of censorship in prison libraries, and it seems that prisons don’t want us to know.” But Christina Cerio took a stab at figuring it out. – Melville House
The Small-Town Grouch Who Declared ‘Libraries Are Communist’ Was Right, Thank Goodness
Theman who said that was in a rural hamlet in the mountains of New York state, and Sue Halpern had just been dragooned by the town board to set up a lending library with a total of $15,000. About a year on, after tremendous success, Halpern decided she agreed: “A public library is predicated on an ethos of sharing and egalitarianism. … It is defiantly, proudly, communal.” – The New York Review of Books
Ingmar Bergman Grew Weary Of Making Movies. Then He Started Writing Books
The books are startlingly intimate, exploring things he felt he couldn’t convey in film. “In order to go back to the beginning, to explore with such startling intimacy the archetype of all those other women, this great artist has to find a new mode of expression—one that was, so to speak, neither wife nor mistress. A virgin medium.” – New York Review of Books
Canada Council Grants Handed Out
“The chronically underfunded Canadian Opera Company is one of the big winners in Canada Council for the Arts’ one-time grants totalling $33 million announced this week… Only a few organizations – including the COC, the National Ballet of Canada, the Montreal Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony and the Stratford Festival – got seven-figure grants.”