Word: daydreamer
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...replaces the version of events. What is relayed are Katarina’s emotional and physical demands—and the accusation that Louise is caught in a daydream.It is the reader most of all who feels caught in a daydream, shuffled between the novel’s ever-changing “I”s and shifting versions of events. Goethe is a smiling dog who eats sandwiches. Goethe is porcelain statue. A suitcase is packed by Randi. A suitcase, topped with the woman on page eight’s ubiquitous white hat is packed...
...does doodling aid memory? Andrade offers several theories, but the most persuasive is that when you doodle, you don't daydream. Daydreaming may seem absentminded and pointless, but it actually demands a lot of the brain's processing power. You start daydreaming about a vacation, which leads you to think about potential destinations, how you would pay for the trip, whether you could get the flight upgraded, how you might score a bigger hotel room. These cognitions require what psychologists call "executive functioning" - for example, planning for the future and comparing costs and benefits...
...well-mannered country where fun comes first and losing your temper is a sign of weakness. Reid is known for high-volume, expletive-rich team talks and a habitually grim expression. At Sunderland, an English team he once managed, supporters used to sing, to the tune of the Monkees' "Daydream Believer," "Cheer up, Peter Reid ..." Land of Smiles? Dream on. Reid's face is built for bollocking...
...Bloody Valentine’s “Isn’t Anything,” Pixies’ “Surfer Rosa,” Fugazi’s “13 Songs,” and Sonic Youth’s “Daydream Nation.” But while those albums all self-consciously operated around or even subverted the tropes and conventions of “pop” music in their own different ways, today’s independent music seems to be working deliberately in the opposite direction. Indie?...
...Hogan explained that ATP started the full album trend with the Don’t Look Back concert series in Britain, which featured the Stooges performing “Funhouse,” and later Hogan personally convinced Sonic Youth to tour performing their 1988 album “Daydream Nation” in full. “We have started a trend. I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad thing,” Hogan says. “There’s some real shit out there...