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Great book I just finished. I had read one of his previous ones back in college and loved it. Nothing like the strangeness of truth. Wait…someone said that better. The book is a series of case studies of people with neurological conditions that all revolve around music. 

The highlights are contained in the book which is now half red with pen marks, but here’s some notes and thoughts it inspired enough to cause them to be writ:

How much of outer body experiences are culturally interred, how much is raw neurosci?

Musicophilic flood of raw music & temporal lobe seizures.

What if our strange neurological syndromes became the norm? What would we induce?

Fear of music and epileptic triggers (great character trait).

Kleine Nacht musik > sensing by reading and creating experiences in your head.

Brainwork sufferer. "Ohrwurm", composer Slonimsky. Check out the Twain story. 

What if you had to find the music playing in your mind?

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» Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel – as featured on Abyss & Apex.

This is pretty neat way to do a story – an adaptation of the journal trope.

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And here’s what Omnibucket looked like right now.

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Here’s what this site looked like right when I posted this. This balloon race thing is probably the coolest use of the web I’ve seen in a long time. The applications are enormous. And designed lovely taboot. My balloon, "Rikkitikkitavi" is in like 9000th place, but hey, that’s cool. Not sure how long this link will work, but here’s how to access my balloon: http://www.playballoonacy.com/show/02be01c6de745dad97623a0feb4dad9c.

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Glimmertrain #67 highlights:

Blood Rush by Paul Carroll – Love that Irish/British diction. So yesteryear. Solitary without annoyance. A bum, a blind bum, a girl, and the lifeline of books and stories and reading.

Interview w/ Michael Parker – Rhythm & syntax versus the importance of plot. Challenge and toy with readers’ expectations. The landscape of a story.

Furniture by Laura Valeri – Wandering, good immigrant story. Tight, discrete passages. No circularity. Great metaphors (paper thin, bum’s petal hands).

Killer Heart by EB Johnson – Good bee buzzing throughline.

Therapist by Carol Bly – Quite funny. More style than the "punch" of the baby-related narrative which can be rather boring and typical.

Interview w/ Eli S. Evans – Excellent. Revisiting and reshaping the past. Writing with no revision and being accountable to what you previously wrote. The sword about to fall, the soccer ball about to be kicked. Why is the narrator telling us this? Invention and discovery. Translation and the vagueness of sentences. System of resonances and echoes…and the existance of episodic parts. Writers with a map versus writers with a compass. 

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