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> … a dice … a dice … a dice It’s a die ! I guess I shouldn't be stunned that the Grauniad makes this sort of error, but … sheesh.
https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2006/09/die-...
It's interesting to compare "Dice Man"[0] with "Yes Man"[1] (the book, not the Jim Carrey film adaptation). Both books are about people putting their decision making to an external force (Dice man with a die, Yes Man by accepting any offer or invitation that he was given). Dice Man embraces randomness which ultimately leads to Chaos and self destruction. Yes Man embraces positivity and most of the outcomes are positi…
A girlfriend that's into theatre took a course for being a clown and explained to me that one of the traits of the clown, as defining as the red nose, is accepting any challenge, saying that she knows how to do it perfectly with the ensuing disastrous results.
I realized that I'd been doing that all my life. So you can call me a clown but, as you say, results are often wonderful. Actually I start dating her with a couple of such daring decisions.
The clown seems to be some kind of metaphor for children's behaviour. So, nice.
Having never heard of this, what other true "cult novels" are out there? They mentioned Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan) in the article, I also thought of The Magus by John Fowles, The Glass Bead Game by Hesse and of course Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. What others are out there?
The Testament of Gideon Mack: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/014102335X
Hard Boiled Wonderland: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099448785
Walking on Glass: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002TXZTE8
The Ginger Man: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349108757
Perhaps not true cult classics, but they're often titles I've recommended or just buy for friends many times, and go back and re-read periodically.
Having never heard of this, what other true "cult novels" are out there? They mentioned Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan) in the article, I also thought of The Magus by John Fowles, The Glass Bead Game by Hesse and of course Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. What others are out there?
Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson comes to mind.
I vaguely knew the book/concept, but this is very well written piece.
It's interesting to compare "Dice Man"[0] with "Yes Man"[1] (the book, not the Jim Carrey film adaptation). Both books are about people putting their decision making to an external force (Dice man with a die, Yes Man by accepting any offer or invitation that he was given). Dice Man embraces randomness which ultimately leads to Chaos and self destruction. Yes Man embraces positivity and most of the outcomes are positi…
Basically saying _yes_ to everything isn't going to magically make you only have great experiences. It will just mean having different ones.
So I changed it up and let the die decide if any given day was a fast day. I used 1d8 and 1s meant no eating that day (24h).
Did it fora few months and it kicked my weight loss up a notch. And yes: I had a few consecutive 1 days... So fasting was extended to 48h. No triples though, thank Zeus.
It cured the cheating ... And I found myself praying before rolls for "no 1s".
I called it stochastic IF (or SIF).
This is what I imagined cave dudes faced. SIF.