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In an October 1957 letter to a friend who had recommended he read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Hunter S. Thompson wrote, “Although I don't feel that it's at all necessary to tell you how I feel about the principle of individuality, I know that I'm going to have to spend the rest of my life expressing it one way or another, and I think that I'll accomplish more by expressing it on the keys of a typewriter than by letting it express itself in sudden outbursts of frustrated violence. . . .” Thompson carved out his niche early. He was born in 1937, in Louisville, Kentucky, where his fiction and poetry earned him induction into the local Athenaeum Literary Association while he was still in ... Continue reading →
Meet Valérie Trierweiler, France’s Unmarried ‘First Lady’A brief introduction to the woman accompanying President-elect François Hollande to Élysée Palace later this month Charles Platiau / ReutersFrance's newly-elected President Francois Hollande and his companion Valerie Trierweiler celebrate on stage during a victory rally at Place de la Bastille in Paris early May 7, 2012. France voted in elections on Sunday and Francois Hollande becomes the nation's first Socialist president in 17 years.Filling Carla Bruni’s Louboutin shoes would be a daunting prospect for anyone, but will certainly be executed with ease by the next woman charged with such a task. Valérie Trierweiler, 47, the partner — or “companion” as she prefers to be called — of new French President-elect François Hollande, is already relatively familiar to the ... Continue reading →
14 MARCH, 2012 by Maria Popova The basics of optimism and color theory, with a nod to neuroscience. When Freud came to believe he was going to die between the ages of 61 and 62, and subsequently began seeing the two numbers everywhere he looked, which only intensifying the urgency of his superstition, he came to observe the value of selective attention in focusing the unconscious. But what if we engineered this selective attention purposefully and aligned it with our emotional and mental well-being? That’s exactly what photographer, children’s author, and educator Ruth Kaiser did in 2008, when she began seeing smiley faces everywhere she turned. For the past four years, she has been collecting and sharing photographs “found” everyday smileys in the Spontaneous Smiley ... Continue reading →
