Jay Rubin: “You don’t have a grammatical structure that you can use in any way, when translating Japanese to English. You don’t have cognates. You certainly don’t have a sentence structure that’s anything like English.” Not to mention the intangibles in each language that don’t exist in the other. “I very often feel I’m writing original – almost original – fiction.”
Tag: 07.08.15
Why Create New Art When Support For Artists Is Declining?
“All societies in decay make war on artists and intellectuals because they offer ideas that are uncomfortable, speaking intrinsic truths that upset the happy-thought spectacle. When societies break down, the language of social discourse and culture become fictitious. This need not be a downer, but a call of resolve and volition to those creators who intuit this struggle, and provide context to where we are in the greater cosmic journey and where you are in your own personal journey as a creator.”
Claim: Globalization Of English Is Narrowing How We Think About The World
“The English language affects, distorts and restricts much of the current, and indeed some of the most celebrated, academic discussion. Human cognition is not as shrunken and similar as media-driven processes of globalization would suggest; the variation of human thought and expression is vast and remains capable of surprise.”
Henry Moore Sculpture Belongs To Local East London Council, Rules Court
“Tower Hamlets council has been declared the legal owner of the Henry Moore sculpture Draped Seated Woman – more popularly known as Old Flo – following a protracted legal dispute. … The Old Flo ownership battle was fought by Tower Hamlets against Bromley council, which claimed rights to the sculpture in 2012.”
The Brain’s Remarkable Sculpting Of Memories
“Some memories persist for a lifetime, even if sometimes only at the level of uncertain contours, says commentator Marcelo Gleiser. How does the brain do that?”
Why Do We Need To Spend So Much Time Valuable Sleeping, Anyway?
Not so long ago, even a leading sleep scientist could joke that the only known function of sleep was to cure sleepiness. Over the past decade, researchers have been pinpointing the important purposes sleep serves – and the bad things that happen when you don’t get enough of it.
Creative Freedom And State Control At Moscow’s Film Festival
Says Russia’s culture minister, “Let all flowers bloom, but we will only water those we like, or those we consider necessary. … State support for culture won’t be going to projects which portray Russia in a negative light.”
Study Says Music Relieves Stress. But Let’s Hear It For Stressful Music!
“The RCM’s research is important in backing up the hunch that many of us will have always had about how music can make you feel better in some circumstances. But that’s not the main reason it matters, and it shouldn’t become a central plank of the ongoing arguments around its cultural importance and value.”
So What Does It Cost To Stage A Music Festival?
“The economics of festivals are finely poised. These events wobble on a knife-edge between glorious success and ignominious bankruptcy, and looking at where the money goes is a sobering undertaking.”
Book Subscription Services Have A Problem: People Who Read Too Much
“Many hands have been wrung over the decline of the American book lover. According to a Gallup poll, the number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978. And according to the Pew Research Center, nearly a quarter of American adults have not read a single book in the past year. But the challenge for e-book services are people who like to read too much.”