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  1. was in the mood for more Kelly Link and landed on an interview ( https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2023/12/15/kelly-link-kevin-brockmeier/ ) instead. it starts off strong talking about this fun idea of nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic, then they compare book lists fitting each.

    BOMB Magazine | Kelly Link by Kevin BrockmeierExpanded from our Winter issue, the author of beloved fantastical stories illuminates nighttime logic—plus songs for writing and bonus reading lists that…BOMB Magazine

    warning: it’s pretty dangerous if you have a growing-the-to-read-pile-habbit, I picked up three of the books in their lists.

    Kevin BrockmeierIn every workshop I teach, I end up mentioning the distinction you makebetween nighttime logic, daytime logic, and dream logic. It's an idea thatalways generates much curiosity; my students view it as a source not onlyof creative clarity but of creative permission. To begin with, here's my bestattempt at articulating these different storytelling approaches: A narrativepossesses daytime logic when at the end you can say, "This happened,and then this happened, and it makes sense, and I can explain why." Withnighttime logic, you say, "This happened, and then this happened, and itmakes sense, and I can't explain why." And with dream logic, you say,"This happened, and then this happened, and it doesn't make any sense."In other words, daytime logic produces a logical, causal kind of sense,while nighttime logic produces a more mysterious, emotional kind ofsense. Dream logic produces emotion but not sense. Are there ways inwhich you would reshape this explanation for me? What have I missed?Kelly LinkI like your articulation a great deal. I might add that there's somethingabout nighttime logic that produces the sensation in the reader that we arein a space between daylight and dreaming.

    Link uses the term manichaeism in this interview and I don’t know it but didn’t look it up because I wanted to keep reading. then this morning I’m reading https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory and it’s got manichaeism used too.

    Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn RightWhat do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?In These Times

    Dang. so I go pop open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism and from there eventually land on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomilism, which, haha, explains the last Link novel’s name for one of the characters, “Bogomil.”, which I let slide when I read that.

    Manichaeism - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgBogomilism - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

    I’m a very, very credulous reader. "Oh, ok, whatever.”

    anyway, so bogomil, probably had the usual baggage, but I bet this specific bit didn’t work out too well for them

    ![wikipedia screenshot, text:Doctrine [edit ]оучать же свою си не повиновати са властелемь своимь; хоулаще богатым, царьненавидать, рягажть са старбишинамь, оукарніть болары, мрьзькы богоу мьнатьработа жщаю цьсарю, и вьсакомоу рабоу не велать работати господиноу свомоу.ucetu je soja si ne povinovati se vlastelem svoim; xuleste bogatyie, cari nenavidet, regajot sẹ stareisinamum, ukarjajot boljary, mriziky bogu minetu rabotajosteje cesarju, i visjakomu rabu ne veleti rabotati gospodinu svojemu.They teach their followers not to obey their masters; they scorn the rich, they hate the Tsars, they ridicule their superiors, they reproach the boyars, they believe that God looks in horror on those who labour for the Tsar, and advise every serf not to work for his master. 32]- Cosmas the Priest, Treatise Against the Bogomils](./113448223430456892.png)

  2. violet, fuscia, deep orange, sunshine yellow gradient. that’s pretty.

    https://botsin.space/@CALandscapeBot/113439510288765240

  3. it’s really clever how oven makers put the big stock pot burners on the back so’s when you accidentally pull your entire salt cellar out of the upper cabinet next to the stove with an errant finger while trying to get a pinch in a hurry for something else and about two cups of kosher salt dump all over the stovetop, counter, floor, etc, none of it gets in the stock pot with dinner in it

  4. what will it take to connect this all the way to Mission? I want to understand

    alt-text for quoted image: a street design displaying proposed changes to a bike lane in san francisco

    https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/113409728354860618

    SFMTA Reports & Docs Bot (@sfmtadocsbot@carfree.city)Attached: 1 image Proposal for Valencia design - November 19 MTAB https://www.sfmta.com/media/41021/download?inlineCar Free City

  5. https://missionlocal.org/2024/10/in-a-new-era-of-local-politics-some-democratic-clubs-fight-to-stay-relevant/

    In a new era of local politics, some Democratic clubs fight to stay relevant Some Democratic clubs are redefining their space and their roles in a political scene fueled by millions coming from the private sector.Mission Local

    The _________ (corporation name) Political Action Committee Democratic Club

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