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...idea for this book? When the Fight Club movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. I needed something that would get me out of bed really early in the morning so I started volunteering at a homeless soup kitchen. People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things...
Pygmy is written in a very unique, fractured dialect. After reading it, I couldn't stop thinking in that dialect. What was it like to write in it? It really was a blast, it was like writing poetry instead of prose. There were so many rules for what I was doing intentionally wrong. For example, I couldn't use the prefix un- - unhappy, unconscious. With Pygmy it was no happy or no conscious. I found myself saying no conscious a lot. You end up internalizing all that language and it lingers in your head and alters the way you think...
...heard you throw plastic body parts at people. People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. For one or two years I was throwing arms and legs and hands and feet at the audience if they wanted them. And then last year I moved on to thousands of these really cheap sex dolls. We had races...
...fees, interest and other charges customers paid over the past 12 months. That information would come on a person's statement as well as electronically for easier comparison shopping. "By knowing their precise usage and fee payments, customers would get a better sense of what they are paying for," write Thaler and Sunstein. Ostensibly, people would then spend more reasonably. When a new sofa goes from costing $500 to $700 - and the pricing is transparent enough for people to realize that - fewer...
...interest in the issue began when he visited the earthquake zone weeks after the event and saw firsthand the suffering of its victims and particularly of those who had lost children. He began to write extensively about the issue on his blog - already one of the country's most popular - and soon found readers volunteering to help him in an attempt to record the exact number of students who had been killed. It's a project Ai says he will continue until "we find the last name, or I am dead." The way things are going, it's most likely...