Monday, August 29, 2022

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

We can never see the whole picture at once.


Hardly a very passionate man, the I have my passions, phlegmatic ones.

phlegmatic (of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.


Love cannot but be physical, as its furthest stretch of holiness, it cannot be impious, in its utterest fleshliness. It is […] doomed to decay.


De se perdre en même se laisser dépérir.

[To get lost at the same time to waste away.]


The best thing is to have no opinions, and just do one’s duty.

 

4

“wonted circle of his thoughts” – commonly practiced; usual

Smelter

5

chasm – deep opening in earth

Vista –

Solemn – dignified and somber; committed to keeping promises

Phantasmagorical – characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapose

Giddy – lacking seriousness

Col – pass between mountain peaks

Ulster – loose long overcoat of heavy fabric usually belted

Sanatorium = sanitarium a hospital for chronic disease

Bethought

7

I am brown

Cabriolet – small

Flounce – walk with exaggerated jerky motions or emphatically

Indignant – angered at something unjust or wrong

Rhonchi

Intercostal space – between ribs

Sputum – expectorated matter

8

watercourse – channel where water flows

cupola – domed roof

9

Prospectus

10

Porter

Ennui

Lenoleum

11

Cold cream

Formalin

Loquacious

Voluble

Croup

Frock

Gesticulate

Epoch

Unbosomer

Stiletto

14

Convivial

15

Quoth

16

Jocund

Pallar

Ardour

Drawl

17

Christening

Neuritis-an embolus

?

Esplanade

Pilasters

Parterre

Stucco

Livery

Batiste

Étagère

Cashmere

Mahogany, cedar, oak, palisander-wood, fir, sandalwood

Daguerreo types

Rococo

Glit

22

chaste

hat in hand

ineffable

topknot

selfsame

rheumatic

septuagenarian

patriciate

24

Idyllic (guise)

Burghers

Sedulous

Incipient

Rein

Snuff-box

Jabot

26

Resplendent

Be garlanded bier

Bereft

27

Thorvaldsen

Candelabra

28

Obscurantism

Ruff

29

Equipage

Cerebral congestion

Third breakfast

Indolent

30

Carboys

31

Cavil

Platt

Dunderhead

Epoch

32

Palsy

Encomiast

35

Metacentre

Patrician

Irreverent

Timeline: train → ascent → dinner → dreams → neighbor sex → breakfast → lament about smoke → odd group →shrieking woman story → Herr Settembrini

38

Balustrade

38 start-shaped gentians

Caduceus

Blithe

Bestial

41

Tubercular typhus

Dovecots

Enigmatic

Marmalade

Malapropism

Viands

44

Spinster

Solicitude

Homely

46

Smock

Hofrat

Myrmidon

Parterre

Portmanteau of involuntary celibates

Monogram

Gratis

47

Sine petunia (Latin)

50

Pneumothorax – stops one lung, fill it with nitrogen

52

Spoilt

Alpenstock

Ferrule

53

Extreme Unction

Senser (Knocks)

54

Horus’s door

Ministrant

56

Bald bays

Cravat

57

Minos and Rhadmanthus

Impertinent

59

Esprit

Blithely

60

Ennobled

61 gratis

Fowler

Melancholia

Malice – feeling to see others suffer

47

Epithet

Mordant

63

Phthisis

Cirrhosis (of the liver)

64

Smutty

65

Contrivance

66

Balustrade

Loggia

68

Mein

Why say bosom instead of breasts/chest?

Verandah doors

70

Reclining halls

73

Lychee

Rotunda

Frocks

petites chevaux

 

German word for half-slumber

 

75

Preux chevalier

Wollen

Rhonchi

Décolleté

Voracity

Plaits of hair

Reproof

78

Contemptuous

Coaduceus

Inexorable

81

Tete-a-tete

82

Bouillon

Zwieback

Marmalade

Julieanne soup

Jam and marzipan

Cheshire

84

Shape arabesques

88

Conviviality

Parcel

Batiste

90

Plumeau

92

Vouchsafed

Mohaif

95

Sallow

Penuriousness

Tramontane

Seditious

Drolly

Asinity

Placent

Experiri

98

Consumptive

Carisature

Prosy

102

Austere

Neophyte

Excursus

104

Vitiate

Psychical – time?

Tedium

106

Nobs

Moribimdus

108

Vouchsafe

109

Eucharist

111

Sostemeto

Torpid

112

Sidling

Sabbath

Vestiges

Ploughshare

115

Tapir-faced

Monocle

116

Mottled

“moribund”

Worls

118

Falsetto

Palatal

119

Sombre

Torrent

Regale

Idyllic

Prattle

120

Abutment

Appellation

Pate

121

Plume

Permanence

124

Dint

125

Décolletage

Carriage

Flaccid

126

Mechanical waxwork

126

Labial

Perry

Negligee

Irreproachable

128

Abysses (of the soul)

Sundry

Prospectus

131

Counteracting influence of the bourgeoisie kind

Garderobe

133

Auscultator

Auscultator

137

Prosaic

Marine

140

Sententiously

Corporeal

141

Oeremptorily

142

Inanity

Military precision vs loitering civilian laxity

In flagrante

144

Envisaged

145

Immured with opportunity

Demarche

148

Harangue

149

Efficacious

Untraelled

Animus

Placet experiri

Preen

150

Tormet of Tantalus → temptation without satisfaction (source of tantalize)

Astral

151

Duplicity

Revel

In Baccho et ceteris

153

Carbonaro

Conspiratorial

Ardour

155

Asseverated

Asunder

156

Sundry

Firmament

Settembrinian (scheme of things)

Sedition

Dauntless

Burgher’s pike

157

Cosmogony

Quiescence

Pinion

Animus

Mystagogic

160

Bello stile

Paletot

Propinquity

165

Catarrh – oppression in frontal sinus and inflamed uvula

Recus

Vouchsafed

166

Raucous (voice)

Whatever language on page 166

Pinaforish

Coif

Stye

167

Formamint

171

Visage

Caprice

172

Pantomime

Gammon

173

Chilblain

Auscultate

Heidekind

175

Bello stile

Mortis causa

176

Transmuted

177

Carafe

Chaise-longue

179

Siberian penal settlement

Supernumerary

Penates

Febrile

183

Quires

184

Sickroom

185

Make no bones of it

Requiescat in pace

189

Drowl

192

Orbis pictus

193

Italian: ecco!

Italian: pakertto

Refectory communal dining-gall (usually in a monastery)

Cloister

Noviciate

196

Coccus

Wag

197

Phlegmatic (race)

Locuter

Apoplectic

Phlegm

Crudity

200

Sarcophagi

Homage

Palingenesis

Chidden

pulumeau

201

Contrition

Mannheim

Cicerone

Acquicence

209

Lossom

Contaminate

210

Antechamber

213

Chivalrous scruples

214

Bulb (verb)

217

Hilus glands

Adhesion

218

Connexion 219

Lustre

220

Stolid

221

Grazie tanto

Quitism iridecent

222

Analysis is good as it shatters absurd convictions, dissolves natural prejudices and undermines authority. It is very bad related to inaction.

223

Parthians and Scythians

225

Ostentatious

226

Outvied

Impel

Parasol

Aquilegia, gentian, crocus

227

Volubly

White lace matince

232

Pomaded (hair)

233

Insouciance

Balsam

235

Athwart

Wear heart upon sleeve

237

Salient

239

Pos de quoi

240

Pallas athene

Aegis

Diapositive

Nodule

243

Euphony

Barcelona

246

Folio (volume)

Belletrist

249

Termerity

Demir

Protinus

Porphyrius

250

En passant

Fatum et factum

Haut gout

251

Succour

Humanora – humanitites (study)

Titinnabulation

Pfenning

Camphor

254

Anch io sono pittore (Spanish)

Dilettantism

257

Hyperborean

Subcutaneous

Epicanthus

258

Atavistic vestiage

259

Pas

Corium

Jurisprudence

Philogy

261

Physiognomy

Palmitin, stearin, olein

Ambrosia

Plasticity

Subcutaneous

Drapery

263

Ontongenetically

Vasomotor nerves

264

Sympathicus

Sebaceous glands

Albuminous

Cholesterin

265

Crème de la crème

Distension

 

What the body is composed of psychologically

 

266

Collagen

Une destruction organique

267

Folderol

269

Pallid

271

Cagnac

Ensconced

276

Lanugo

278

Spermatozoon

279

Protozoon

Ephithelia

Ectoderm, entoderm

280

Femur

281

Vermiform

Thalamus

Pons varolii

283

Protozoa

(turbercles) portentous

Millet-seed (size)

287

Moribund

Effacement

Mayhap

289

Equivoque

Chaise-longue

Bel canto

Doughty

Supervene

294

Bienseance

295

Leise, leise, fromme wiise

Tannhauser

296

Infimity

298

Malapropism

Evinced

Hortensia – flowers

302

Carafe

Phthisical

Bequest

Disquietingly

Adieux

Self-reproach

Hortensia

Affaire de coeur

308

Conquettish

309

Cachinnoation

311

Tincture (Asiatic)

312

Eczema

Pleura

Periosteum

314

Especial

Tricot

Virtuosi

Hors concours

316

Phantasmagoria

Abnegation

317

Landau

In duici jubilo

Vulgarized

Placent experiri

322

Maisons de sante

Sanses macabres

326

Decollete

327

Tresses

Tureen

331

Objurgation

Inanity

332

Epicanthus

Sebaceous

Libials

333

Con espressione

345

Sputnum

Gaffky

350

Hypos (injections?)

Virtuoso

(cared not a) doit

354

Brunetto Latini

Pomegranate

355

Nosegay (of flowers)

Terra firma (feasts of)

356

Scythiab cliffs

357

Thither

359

Bagnio

Invectives

360

Sedulous

361

Pleura-shock

363

Soldanellas

Primroses

Androgynous

Androccium

Gynacceum

364

Impidicus

366

Coup d’ocil

369

Herbarium

Necromancers

Soothsaying

370

Dodecatemoria

373

Princeps scholasticicorium

374

Solet Aristotles qu ?

375

Inimicus

376

Occidental

Lao-Tse taught that incaction is…

Fenelon

Molinos

377

Penitential (discipline)

378

Inferal

380

Obloquy

Pan-germanism

Glacis

Russophil

Caesaro-papism

Kremlin vs hofburg

381

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she *is* fate! One always wills one’s fate.

381

Brenner frontier

382

Infusorium

Ius divinum

385

Mystagogue

386

Felderol

De se perdre on meme se laisser deperir

Bourgeous world-republic vs hierarchial cosmopolis

“The best thing is to have no opinons, and just do one’s duty.”

387

Ranunculus

Herbaceous (foliage)

(blue) aquilegias [picture]

latterly (given up)

389

Surpine

390

Black-clad – outer covering

390

thin-skinned – quick to take offense

391

Sallow – unhealthy looking, sickly

392 stake winnings… parley

392 portiere

Dias

Pieta

393

Venetian (lusre)

Spellbound

Pios

(arms) akimbo – extending arms/hips outward

Jrugget

Signum mortificationis

Palliating

Epoch

395

Sojourn

Olotinus

Voltaire

Florid

396

Bestial

Wag

Prodigious

397

St Augustine: Credo ut intellegam – I believe in order that I may understand. (Faith leads to knowledge.)

400

Coup de croce

Discipline, scrifice, the renunciation of the ego, the curbing of the personality

402

Abrogated

Impune

Apotheosis

Perilous

403

Abhorrence

Usurpation

Repudiate

avarice

404

World-proletariant

Ciritas dei

Roma locuta

Salto mortale

405

Antinomies

406

Appellation

Garret (smell of)

Belletristic (collaberator)

Divian

Chaste (sobriety)

408

Discursive

409

Jesuit

Punctilio

Noviciate

410

Indemnify

411

Koli jesuite

Petite tache hamide

Voluptuary – addicted to luxury and sensual pleasures

412

Mephitic

413

Consummate

414

Taciturn

Abetted

415

Cheek (adj)

Teleological reasoning

Fort possible qu’il va mourir

416

Mahlziet

417

phthisis

Concupiscence

lecherous

rhonchi

debauch

blackslidden

418

Hook it

Cornet

419

Bawdy

420

Pluck (show)

Ensconed

423

In/violable

Marusja

324

Brine(less)

426

Beribbon

forlornity

Choler

Asseverate

Albumen

Rhonchi

Brusque

Catarrh

Oblige

Conflagration

pliancy

428

Pallid

Self-abnegation

Traunt

431

Pleura

432

Bacilli, bronchial tubes, pulmonary vesicles, nodules, soluable toxins, narcotic effect, caseation, chalky petrefaction, gangroena pulmonum

Carbolic acid

Chansonette

Café-chantant artiste

433

Florid

Pliancy

434

mein

Sedulous (polite)

Catechumen

parasol

Jocose

Concomitant

Pensive

Paling

schismatic

437

Coquettish

Decollete

439

Akimbo

440

Galicia and volhyn (map)

Goyim

442

Pedagogue

Inimical

Muses(s)

Monastic and manorial

Captious

Pensionnat

444

Inimical

445

noviciate

446

Ad hec quid tu?

“Ut in aliqueum gradum quietis in anima perveniat”

This tranquility, when achieved, consisted of completel atrophy of the personality, a state of insensibility in which the individual became a lifeless tool; it was veritabl “graveyard peace”…

Door keeper, acolyte, lector, exorcizor

Convalescent

Mingled all the elements of hell

449

Infidel

psaltery

Scourge

Amor carnalis

Commodorum corporis

Narcosis

remonstrate

451

Gammon

Pleura-shock

Derisively

Acrimoniously (debating)

Self-abnegation

453

Pedantry

454

Meritrocious

Mangy penology

Bastinado

Prate

Indwelt

Efficious

Rapt (soul was0

Statu degradationis

Pudoris et confusionis sensum

455

Penology

Bastinado

Prate

456

Lout

Reprobates

Ignominiously

Refractory criminals

457

Peride ac si cadaver

Putreficate

Jurisprudence

458

Repose – free from work, stress, obligations

Fastidiousness – meticulous about matters of taste in the matter of corporal punishment (physically injure convict)

459

Choke-pear

Recalcitrant

460

Metier

461

Scientific determinism

deride

Molly-coddle

464

Che guazzabuglio proprio stomachevole!

465

Starched ruff

Edifying

Enobling

466

Joli jesuite a la petite tache humide

Quibble

Neophite

Dawero, e crirmoso

Higgledy-piggledy

467

Factum et jaticm

Abdicate

Incorrigible

Homage

Chirruped

469

Tumult

Bough

Stataury

Fresh-aid faddist

Funicular

Declivity

Chalet

Valorous

Mellifluous

Exault

Protoplasm

Gorges and defiles

481

Repudation

Zepher

Balmy

485

Crystallometry

Colloquy

Repudation

Sordid bourgeouis view

Burnous

Declinty

Exigence chimerical

487

Whiles

Anent

Littoral

Scrupluous

496

*guazzabuglio*

Cornetcy

Subalternship

Beatitude

Catarrh

501

Blepharosphasm

Mufti

503

Toothsome

Supervene

Looking defferentially down

506

*rebellio carnis*

510

Fermnts

Transubstatiation

Hermetics

Neophyte

Bacchantic

Emissary

Proselyter

Odium

Unanimous

*ecrasez linfame!*

518

Potentate

Ecclesistic

*medroeus*

Franciocan mysticism

Thomistic cognition

Medocre versifier

521

Brazen

Splenetic

Eduial mandarins

Obscurantism

Bogy

Gorgon

Epoch

*nomini letterati*

524

Hellenism

Inciter

Tutelary

525

Panegyric

Seraphic cant

*venmericht*

Paean

528

Laryngeal

Decorous silence

*bienseance*

Pettishly

536

Propheseda

Camphor

538

Mucin and albumen

Febrile

541

Intricably

Enoble

542

Hermetical magic

Temporal distortion

Hashish eater

Alchemistical

547

Sonorous

Doggedness

551

Inviolable

Perfervid

Pallid gaze

553

Magnate (money-magnate)

Nugatory

Exigence

Merit

Slvoes

Faineant

559

Somnambulant

Escurial

Lanceolate

Croupier

Oallid gaze.. and shis pelling

Pantomime

Chaise-longue

Besprent

564

Use of tobacco one of those over-refined enjoyment of the cailtivation of which robbed of their majesty the simple pleasures of life—those gifts…

565

The majority of human beings are too heedless, too flabby, too corrupt, too worn out inwardly to give thme their due….

Ignominy

567

Harague

Neolithic rage

Lethagy

570

Physiognomy

Sybaritic

Gallimafry

Cognac

Begile

Choler

Arabesques

574

To brook

Pell-mell

Helter-skelter

We can never see the whole picture at once

Nermetic

Revel

Reproof

Malay

Evice

Antipyretic

Quinine

578

Albuminoid/albumen

Arabesques

Grammes (unit of measurement)

Cinchona

Quinine

Epidermis to the cambium

Upas

Strychnine

Alkaloid

Louring

Piques

581

Smitten

Subjugated

Psysiognomies

Pitiable fool

Temperamental difference

Pleonasm

Unpolitic harness

Animavert

Risage

Wantonness

Logomachy

Pinons

593

Antinomies

Betokened

594

Harly a very passionate man, the I have my passions, phlegmatic ones

Phlegm

Dint

Loge

Impertience

Phlegm

598

Egoistic craving for experience

Incorrigible

Scal of love

Insinuating charm

599

Love cannot but be physical, as its furthest stretch of holiness, it cannot be impious, in its utterest fleshliness. It is […] dommed to decay.

601

Affable

Want unalloyed drive am I taking!

Lancelike

Intercalate

Wry (lips)

Dittiee

Quartan philippina

Paligenesis

Hyrostatics

Sibilant

Bespattered

Insensate

Decursive

Monogrammed

Obeisance

Watercourse

Portents

Assured

Hilt

Circumlocitious

Apperceptions

Cocci

626

Demonstrable hypothesis

Canny

Malign influence

Philatelic

Virtuosos

Cat’s-cradle

Sepia

Cellulose

Partisianship

Manifold emotions

Portentous

Incestuous

Artifice

Whelting sound

Prima donna

Ephemeral idolartry

Cantilanas

Florid

Truncated

Pantomime

Panchant

Scruples

653

Hystericed emotions

Chlorotic

Quaqmirish

Laity

Oubliette

Etherealized

In concession

660

Stratum

Poesy

Vain

Placable

Opaline

Amanuesis

Amiability

Moral scepsis

Indefeasible

Trifle

668

Biopsychical projections of cobconscous complexes into the objective

Ieoplastic

Corporealization

Ingratiating smile

Morass

Compunctious

Alacrity

Intercession

Rescind

Unetion

Psychical

677

Anon

Consecrate

Obstetrician

Eslampsia

Rancour

Gibes

Asunder

Lacuna

Calumnious

687

Defamation

Pusillanimity

Mirth

Remorse

Stultify

Overween

Titter

697

Envisage

Engender

706

*infelice*

707

Apoplexy

Stultify

Sundering

Rodomontade

Mansard

Citadel

Grotto

Coruscation

Athward

Bemir

Saturday, January 18, 2020

The Comedy Bible (2001) Judy Carter

34 Normal people express their sense of humor by memorizing joke; comics transform their life experiences into punch lines and write their own jokes. […] Most people hide their defects; we comics show them to the world.

Comedy clubs will often set aside one night for amateurs, and many bookstores, bars and colleges have open mikes… They are comedy boot camps—the worse they are, the more seasoned you become.

289 A good class offers a safe place to fall flat on your face, a chance to work on something risky rather than settle for the easy, hack joke. Classes give you a weekly structure,  forcing you to show up and come up with new material. Audit the class first.
 Comedy supplies: pen, pocket notebook, large binder, 100 index cards, voice recorder/phone.

37 Keeping an Idea Book

64 A joke has a setup, turn and a tag.

69 Read all joke examples out loud. Jokes are broken down into five parts: Attitude, topic, premise, act-out, mix, act-out. The attitude, topic and premise (setup) is serious. The act-out and mix is the funny bit.

71 What the joke is about is called the topic. It has one of four basic attitudes: weird, scary, hard, stupid. “You know what’s  weird/scary/hard/stupid about  ______?

74 A premise is also called an opinion, a point of view. It must clearly and precisely answer the question of the attitude+topic. It’s usually more insightful than funny. I good premise is also an original observation.

78 I, me or my in the premise, it’s too self-absorbed and won’t interest the audience. Once the audience is interested, you can bring in specific personal elements. But don’t make it into a story about “you.” Comedy writing is an intense investigation into what it means to be a human being—not what it means to be you.

79 A premise is not a description of what happened (not a story). It’s a cut-to-the-chase, get-to-the-point, original observation.
88 A joke starts out general so everyone can relate, and after the premise is the time to bring in the specifics about you.

95 Mixes generally start with “What if,” and are most always followed by another act-out.

108 Almost everything (and anything) in your life can be turned into a comedy topic if you care about it enough. The more painful or humiliating something is, the more likely it is to make an audience laugh. It’s kind of a trade-off: bad for your life equates to good for your act.
Chris Titus, “When I was being a happy comic, it was a lie. I found that my anger would work onstage and started experimenting with it. Then as much as the happy guy thing was bullshit, so was the angry thing. I finally found a place where I could just be myself and realized that I could do anything onstage—if it’s funny.
Watch your favorite comic and write a few of their jokes and answers to these questions:
1. Is their attitude stated or implied? What is it?
2. Is there an act-out? A mix?
3. Where do they get the most laughs?
4. What personal details did you learn about the comic’s life?
5. What did they do to get the laughs?
6. What topics did they use in their act?
7. What are their signature topics?
If you watch enough comics you might get depressed, because it will seem like every topic has been done. Well, yes, they have. Except for one, that is: your life.

112 What are your authentic (signature) topics? Be sincere instead of funny.

114 Excise: Childhood Writing

127 All topics need to be relatable.

133 Make sure you are in fact doing an act-out and not explaining. Become the type of person you are joking about rather than describing.

134 Mixes—comparison jokes: you can compare any two things—“president of the United States” and “your grandfather”.

135 Another way to do a mix is to change the environment. For instance, if the topic is “your self-absorbed mother,’ put her in a different occupation like a suicide hot line.

138 There is no need for anything in between jokes. If a sentence is not part of a joke, then it’s part of a problem. If you feel the need to use words in between jokes, then use an attitude word to segue: “And you know what else is stupid … ?” (Insert new topic.) Or “Another weird thing is …” (Insert new topic.)

140 Open with something that is obvious about the room. Whatever you decide, be willing to toss it off if it conflicts with the mood of the room. Get on the same wavelength as the audience. If every comic before you opened with, “How are you all doing?”—start with a joke about that. If there is something really obvious about the audience, do a joke about that.

141 Audiences take time to warm up to someone.

142 Make sure your opening sets a tone that you can sustain. And don’t assume the audience is interested in you. They’re not.

144 Even if your jokes are rehearsed, they have to sound spontaneous to sound real.

145 Make sure all your jokes are in the present tense: “I am” rather than “I was.”

147 Greg Proops: “You have to be sincere and talk about what’s real for you. Don’t be sexy and then talk about how you’re not getting dates. Or if you seem smart, don’t talk about nonsense. Don’t be afraid to talk about what you really think.”

148 The best person to poke fun at is you. That’s how you get the audience’s sympathy, rapport.

149 Tom Dreeson: “There’s no such thing as a victimless joke. Each joke has a target and you have to make sure that whoever or whatever that target is—they deserve it.”

151 “What about using props?” Props aren’t worth the schlep and can ruin your timing when you go looking for them. They also create a disconnection from the audience. Rather than showing the audience the big stupid hat your mother wore, describe and mime it. You’ll most likely get a bigger laugh if you leave the prop to the audience’s imagination.

154 “How do I memorize my act?” Break it into chunks that make sense, such as four categories—special challenges, childhood, current issue, and relationship.

163 “How do I stop from being so nervous?” Change your attitude about it. Being nervous can be funny, while being calm, together, confident, and perfect can be a bore.

172 How to pick a current-event topic (1) don’t pick one because you think is funny. There is no such thing as a funny topic. There are no funny ideas. It’s what you do with an idea that makes it funny.  (2) Don’t pick weird topics, but rather have unique opinions about ordinary topics.

176 Another way to come up with your premise is to react to other people’s opinions. Repeat what you read or heard, then give your hit on it. Steve Marmel current event exercise: Read USA Today. Pick one story and break it down into bullet points. Take each point, turn it into a premise and create a playoff.

185 Creating great material is all about rewriting, cutting and pruning.

186 A callback is when you call back, or mention again, something you brought up earlier.

187 List of three: set up a pattern on the first two ideas and then turn it on the third: “Bears, beats, Battlestar Galactica.” The first two set up a pattern of expectancy and the third is a surprise.

189 A runner is a catchphrase that runs through your stint.

194 Timing, not something you can learn from a book, try to do right, or even think about. In fact, if you are thinking about your timing, you can be sure it’s off. Attitude creates timing. Here’s a tip: Don’t talk while the audience is laughing.
Stand-up is not a monologue—it’s a dialogue with the audience. You talk, then the audience talks (by laughing, hopefully), and then you respond to the audience.

195 You never just stand there—always convey an attitude. While they laugh, you add a tag to the joke by repeating the attitude. There should never be even one moment when you’re onstage and attitude free. It’s the kiss of death because audiences respond to emotions, not words.

208 In the morning, spend ten minutes writing stream of consciousness—whatever comes into your head—ignore all rules of grammar, spelling and even logic.

209 Write ten “what if’s.”

209 Pick at least two current-events topics and write ten opinions about each of them.

209 Record yourself ranting for ten minutes about one topic. Do not stop talking.

213 What is the difference with a one-person show?
> Don’t have to make the audience laugh the whole time
> Tell a dramatic story, using humor
> Audience doesn’t have to be included
A person doing a solo show takes the audience on a journey.

214 One reason to do a one-person show—you have a burning desire to tell a particular story.

272 In a speech, end your talk with a “heart story.” This is something that will move them emotionally.

291 Goal sheet, this week I will
- write for ________ minutes each morning
- create ________ pages/minutes of new material
-  perform ________  times
- try out ________  new jokes
- call at least ________ new people to help my career

My ultimate career goals are
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In order to achieve these, the actions I need to take are
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Get a mentor. Seek them out. Buy them lunch. Tell them specifically what you like about their…
Do not ask them to do something for you. Only if you get a return email. Also, just ask for honest feedback.

Before I Fall (2010) Lauren Oliver

chalet - woolden structure with overhanging eaves (Swiss Alp style)
inexplicable - unable to be explained or accounted for
Splinter by Fallacy

32 Kent: he acts like the world is one big, shiny present he gets to unwrap every morning.

43 like a web [...] Everything's connected.

58 Most of the time one night [bends] into the next, and weeks blend into weeks, and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die.

81 [...] really so much worse than what anybody else does? 
Is it really so much worse than what you do?

Like the after-death equivalent of Groundhog Day.

159 [reoccurring idea] You can see them every day–you can think you know them–and then you find out you hardly know them at all.

169 I close my eyes and feel myself letting go, like tipping over the edge of an abyss, darkness rising up to carry me away...

184 the whole world is a fraud, one bright, shiny scam. [...] I'm the one who's trapped. [...] I didn't do anything; I just followed along.

268 I started to think about time, and how it keeps moving and draining and flowing forever forward, seconds into minutes into days into years, all of it leading to the same place, a current running forever in one direction. And we're all going and swimming as fast as we can, helping it along.
My point is: maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrow, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around in it, let it slide like coins through your figures.
So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

269 Eat a fresh baked croissant from a bakery in Paris. Ride a horse all the way from Connecticut to California. Run around in the rain.

362 Everything looks so stupidly, happily normal: everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by ...

369 From now on I’m going to do things right. I’m going to be a different person, a good person.

371 I feel like a curtain has dropped away and I’m seeing people for who they really are, different and sharp and unknowable.

394 …story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it’s not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That’s how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

421 … I just keep walking, one foot in front of the other, one, two, three, and I think about letting go—of the trees and the grass and sky and red-streaked clouds on the horizon—letting it all drop away from me like a veil. Clear. The gross sensations are replaced with a deeper touch, feeling, reality. This new reality is visceral.

427 …time is pouring away, hemorrhaging.

43 Sam becomes free only by realizing that sometimes meaning happens at the expense of our own happiness. She’s liberated only by giving he life worth. Before that, she’s in a version of purgatory, destined (literally) to repeat similar mindless patters that add up, essentially,  to a sum of discrete moments, even good ones, that total nothing.

44 It’s true that Sam was, at the end of Before I Fall, talking about discrete moments and specific choices. But I see now that the choices themselves were almost a coda to the deeper point. Kissing Kent and saving Juliet: these were symbolic actions, representative of a deeper and more fundamental change, and a discovery of the thing that makes live not just bearable but beautiful.

A LETTER FROM LAUREN OLIVER
60 I still believe so strongly in its message: what really matters?

64 Her pettiness is replaced by a sense of what makes life meaningful; the blinders that keep her gaze selfishly focused on her own needs fall off, and allow a vision of the wilder world to creep in; her need for approval is replaced by a desire to love. I have always believed that people—no matter how lost, troubled, damaged, or simply stubborn—can change, can grow can become better and happier and more whole.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Lenovo - 15.6" ThinkPad Edge Notebook Review

Retrevo.com/samples/product.html



Lenovo 627255U Alternate View 15



4 GB Memory
500 GB Hard Drive

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor
2.20GHz Processor Speed


Battery Type 6-cell Lithium Ion (Li-Ion)
Weight 5.4 lb


Built-in Webcam Bluetooth-Enabled
IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wireless Networking

Purchased Feb 2013 on Bestbuy.com.

Issues
  •  Only 4GB of RAM--upgrade:
Upgrade to max memory...
https://www.kingston.com/us/memory/desktop-notebook/system-specific
 or

 
  • Tried to use more than one monitor. Extra memory card needed if you want more than two total screens. 
  • Blank black screen (power) defect!
  • Oracle America, Inc (program name jucheck.exe) conically pops up for permission to update Java 7 Update 17. 
    • Solution: Second, launch task manager, End Process of jusched, and delete that from the "Java Update" file. It's all in the pictures:
Windows Task Manager → Processes

(You may have to make Description longer to view which is the Java...)




Overall
 Frequently a blank black screen prevents anything but safemode from running (so MS Office cannot be run most of the time, and no sound in safemode). I suppose it prevents me from procrastinating (on YouTube and movies). The processing power, such as for going online, is also very slow (only 4GB of RAM). It's better to buy a laptop with 8GB+ RAM.