“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say – and to feel – ‘Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you [...]
I keep running across six word stories of various types.
In the last week, I noticed Six Sells over on 37signals, referencing Stephen Dubner’s (one of the Freakonomics guys) call to “Write a six-word motto for the U.S. of A.” Now there’s a book of, six word memoirs, which means there’s a New Yorker piece [...]
I can see why, at first glance, it might seem that way. It is “the most accurate wristwatch you can buy” not because of the mechanism, but the philosophy: “the hour hand reads ‘remember’, the minute hand ‘you will die’”.
No, really, it’s not morbid. It’s called The Accurate, and it came in a spiffy box [...]
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