I love this comment by Cormac McCarthy in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:
I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
About Peter Darbyshire
recent comments- Comment on “Living the hallucination” by Eric AdamsGreat interview, Peter. I've been holding out for a US release, but I think it's time to go the international shipping route.
- Comment on Vancouver launch of The Warhol Gang coming up by peterThanks!
- Comment on Vancouver launch of The Warhol Gang coming up by Stacey StadnykCan't put the book down. Fantastic Story. Cheers.
- Comment on How I spent my Sunday afternoon by peterNothing special. Just another lazy afternoon doing a photo shoot with naked people in a warehouse.
- Comment on How I spent my Sunday afternoon by Kerryokay, now i want the story behind the photo.
- Comment on Writing lesson No. 4 by peterGlad you liked them! Somebody should really hire me to teach a night school course. Because, like any good writer, I sleep in the day.
- Comment on Writing lesson No. 4 by Susan GlickmanJust read all your writing lessons. Thanks for cheering me up on a day full of physiotherapy, reheated coffee, and editing redundant academic manuscripts!
- Comment on First sighting of The Warhol Gang in a bookstore by Sean CranburyIt would be more impressive if you were on the same table as Christopher Tolkien but 'take what you can get', I guess. Posting the interview now!
- Comment on Post about The Warhol Gang and win a prize! by peterPreach the gospel, comrade!
- Comment on Post about The Warhol Gang and win a prize! by Glenn LPosted on Shelfari, added to the Dystopian Lit group--probably go to the Mall this AM and start talking to shoppers about it
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- Subterranean Builders' GuideIn the underground-themed issue of Rassegna, mentioned earlier, author Nicola Sinopoli offers a brief subterranean builders' guide to bringing architecture underground. "There are now no technological limitations that could stop us from colonizing the underground," he declares, providing a short catalog of useful construction materials in the […]Geoff Manaugh
- Oklo ReactorOklo ReactorThe world's first and only natural nuclear reactorMany people think nuclear power is an invention of mankind, and some even think it violates the laws of nature. But nuclear power is in fact a naturally occurring phenomenon, and life could not exist without it. That's because our sun (and every other star for that matter) is itself a gi […]no-reply@atlasobscura.com (Alpha, Dylan and Trevor)
- Paris Sewer MuseumParis Sewer MuseumThe curious underground history of keeping Paris clean"Paris has another Paris under herself; a Paris of sewers; which has its streets, its crossings, its squares, its blind alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is slime, minus the human form." —Les Miserables. In 1805, before the advent of the modern sewers, Pierre Bru […]no-reply@atlasobscura.com (Dylan, Josh and wythe)
- Military Chatrooms from California to Afghanistan - NYTimes.comYoung Air Force analysts are showing how the Facebook generation’s skills are being exploited — and paying dividends — in America’s wars.(author unknown)
- Pigeon: ImpossiblePigeon: Impossible is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.netbros
- Museum of London iPhone App Blends Old/New London - Londonist (author unknown)
- Think global, burn localSure, you've heard of Burning Man, that art festival/intentional community/temporary autonomous zone thing in the desert, but did you know that it has spawned a host of events called regional burns? As the name implies, these are smaller and mainly draw a local crowd; they operate under a charter from the Burning Man organization and all abide by its Te […]adamrice
- The Enemy Within - Magazine - The AtlanticWhen the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever […](author unknown)
- Japanese Consortium: We’ll Send a Humanoid Robot to Walk on the MoonRobot steps are what you take, walking on the moon. A group of Japanese ...(author unknown)
- I am immortal, I have inside me five thousand ringsIt sprang to life sometime in the 3rd millennium, outliviving the kingdoms of ancient Egypt, it survived six of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and it's older than Judaism. It survived 5,000 years (give or take a few hundred), and was cut down in 1964 by Donald Currey, a graduate student in geography. He was studying the Little Ice Age (prev), a […]filthy light thief
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