Sitz im Leben

Work Schedule, 1932-1933

-Henry Miller Miscellanea

 COMMANDMENTS

1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.

2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring”. [Black Spring is Miller’s second published novel]

3. Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.

4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!

5. When you can’t create you can work.

6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.

7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.

8. Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.

9. Discard the Program when you feel like it -but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.

10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.

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-- Should be appicable to all types of writing.

2011. 12. 20. 코엑스 토다이에서 가족 동반 실험실 송년 파티. 얼추 50명은 모인 듯. ㄷㄷㄷ
시은이는 예전부터 어딜가나 늘 먹던 것만 골라서 먹는데 지영이는 이것 저것 덥석 덥석 먹는다.
잠시 한 눈 팔고 있는데 시은이가 갑자기 꺄악 징그러워~ 비명을 지른다.
뭔 일인가 봤더니 지영이가 새끼 문어를 집어들고 다리를 뜯고 있었다.

맞은 편 시은이가 눈을 가리고 난리치자 지영이가 한 마디 한다.

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

Via Bre Pettis blog.

요거참 신기하네. 사람의 뇌가 빛에 민감한 것은 눈을 보면 당연한데 귀를 통해서도 빛을 받아들인다니.
일조량 부족이 우울증과 관계 있다는 것과 귀를 통해서도 빛을 이용해 뇌를 자극할 수 있다는 두 가지 사실을 이용해 만든 소위 light Pod.



제작사는 핀란드 회사 Valkee.
요거 좀 더 관심 있게 지켜볼 필요가 있다.

아울러, 기분이 꿀꿀해지면 밖에 나가 뇌를 sun tan 해야한다는 사실도 잊지 말아야지.