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...writing, the vanity of destruction,” she says. “I thought: because I wrote, I stood my ground...I thought: the two acts are related, writing and destruction, hiding and being found. Then I sat on the toilet and closed my eyes. Then I fell asleep. Then I woke up.” But “The Savage Detectives” is much more than a novel about poets. Bolaño is an extraordinarily generous writer, and he allows each character to tell his own story in his own voice. (When reading certain blowhard...
...last night in jail was a Sunday. I was falling asleep on the floor when I felt a low harmony echoing up through the concrete of the cell next door. There was bass, tenor and rhythm. For two hours, prisoners filled the jail with music. These were songs of suffering and acceptance, of beauty and soul undiminished...
...other study involves comparing the sleeping ability of subjects who dream with that of subjects who can't because of brain lesions. Solms argues that because our motivational drive is fully active while we're asleep, our brain's way of keeping us asleep and undertaking the necessary repairs is by tricking us, through dreams, into thinking we're up and about and pursuing our desires. It's the neurological equivalent of putting on a DVD for the kids so the main players in the house can get some shut-eye. "Dreams replace the real actions that are instigated...
...associative networks that were activated during dream construction, and trace them back a ways, and maybe discover a new way of looking at events in your life, of looking at yourself, at others, or at the world at large." Maybe that's worth a third of our lives asleep, perchance dreaming...
...Yoshida took the radical step, in 2005, of asking his employer for a less demanding job. (Prior to that, he notched up 14-hour stints.) This means he can have another hour with his kids in the evening. He tucks them into bed at around 8.30 p.m. and falls asleep not long after. "There are very few men around me who spend as much time with their children as I do," he says. "In fact, many people are putting in more overtime [than before]." He's not wrong: the 2005 financial year was Japan's worst ever when it came...