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12:35 AM

A quotation:

> Having long despised creative writing as a vulgar American pursuit, English departments are now desperate to hire some minor novelist or failing poet in order to attract the scribbling hordes of potential Pynchons, ripping off their fees in full, cynical knowledge that the chances of getting one’s first novel or volume of poetry past a London publisher are probably less than the chances of awakening to discover that you have been turned into a giant beetle.

What do you think?

chronicle.com/article/The-Slow-Death-of-the/228991

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Stack Exchange

5:02 AM

Q: Does anyone know the name of this

I'm desperate so i've posted this question on many sites with no success thus far. A few years ago i read a story about a detective and his two children who become the targets of a bokor, or evil voodoo priest. The bokor sends demons after the family to kill them. The detective is skeptical of hi...

fiction

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Incurrence

9:06 AM

@WillHunting Hi

3 hours later…

Will Hunting

11:53 AM

@Incurrence Hi Alex.

Incurrence

@WillHunting How are you?

Will Hunting

@Incurrence Not good.

Have you chosen which topic to do for your presentation?

Incurrence

Yes

Will Hunting

Today, Debian 8 is released so I will install it.

To me, Debian is the best Linux distribution.

Incurrence

I will be doing tensor product of finite groups :)

@WillHunting You have been excited, I hope is is good :)

Will Hunting

11:56 AM

Alright. Have you thought of where to go for grad school?

Incurrence

I think I will stay at my current uni for honours year

and then I am not sure for masters, but if I like my honours advisor I might stay

And then I have no idea, but I hear it is really bad to stay where you did your prior studies, for your PHD

Will Hunting

Alright. I have only one wish now, to get well, but I know that this may never happen.

I don't know what will eventually happen to me, but I will take one day at a time.

I just had dinner with my mum.

Incurrence

You will be well one day

Will Hunting

I hope so. I still believe in kamma and rebirth, in Buddhism.

Incurrence

You fully believe in Buddhism?

Will Hunting

12:01 PM

I would say that most of the things I think I true, some are stories.

Incurrence

So you want to escape the cycle of rebirth?

Will Hunting

I have no reached that stage. I just want a good rebirth.

I am still attached to sensual pleasures.

Incurrence

Define sensual xD

Will Hunting

Remove sensual and you get the same meaning, any pleasure, including math.

I just checked, Debian not yet released, maybe a few more hours, like tomorrow.

I am very happy to have met you this life. You are a good person.

Incurrence

Haha thanks xD

If I am good I might be reborn into a better life :)

Will Hunting

12:06 PM

Yes, I will pray for you.

Nice to talk in this room, away from the math folks.

I am going to do some thinking, talk again @Incurrence.

Incurrence

Okay, talk later. I walked away for a min sorry

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Will Hunting

5:40 PM

Hi @ᴇʏᴇs @Incurrence

Stack Exchange

Q: Quoting lyrics in a book of film criticism

I hope someone can help. I'm writing a book of film criticism, in which I refer to lyrics from the soundtrack as a way to empathise the narrative. Am I required to obtain permission for use of these lyrics? Or, because this is a work of critical nonfiction, am I just required to cite the songs au...