The Traveller's Last Journey DEDICATED TO SHAI MAROM Z"L

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Babel Box

B

This is a box which has the ability to transform the nature of a book placed within it, in such a way that the audience (what may be considered the direction to which the author intends their ideas) is changed to a new, specific, target. The box only changes the one book which has been placed inside it, and all other similar books – including those books with otherwise identical text...

Greenblatt – The Swerve

G

Summary: The rediscovery of Lucretius’ text by Italian scribe (Poggio Bracciolini) and its impact on contemporary / renaissance thinking. Quote: “[With Lucretius] it became possible – never easy, but possible – in the poet Auden’s phrase to find the mortal world enough.” {Preface} “Acediosus, sometimes translated as “apathetic,” refers to an illness...

BYAF

B

But You Are Free is a persuasion technique that consists of reaffirming a person’s free choice. The specific words are not especially important, (“BYAF” is as good as “but obviously do not feel obligated”). Strength depends on being done face-to-face. It still has an effect in email, but it is reduced. Supported by 42 studies and 22,000 subjects/people. The best...

Twilight as Directed by Wes Anderson

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Editorial notes: One of Shai’s unique talents was writing stories in the style of famous authors. In the story below, retrieved from his Google Drive, he convincingly imitates a vampire genre, Twilight-like movie script, as if it were directed by Wes Anderson. Scene 1: A fixed camera shows the following: A man (henceforth the “Father”) is waiting in the shade of his garden on a lounge chair. He...

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