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”At home, where he writes, he no longer has internet access. A four-month stint with wi-fi proved “deadly” for his productivity and having no access at all ensures that he is not tempted to “look at Kajagoogoo videos and old ads for Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum” on YouTube. “Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you’re called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can’t ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn’t written anything for a year.
From a great interview with Dave Eggers (via jhnbrssndn) (via shaneguiter) (via tarts) (via buyhercandy) (via semisetadrift) (via unicornology)
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FEB. 3, 1863:
SAMUEL CLEMENS USES MARK TWAIN PSEUDONYM
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Marina shack in Gouldsboro, Maine. Photo by Greg Hartford.
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catedrals asked: Isn't there a significant curve on the SAT? I thought it was widely accepted that the curve is higher in the fall, lower in the spring. Or it might be the other way around. Either way, more seniors take it at a certain time, and more SAT-prepped students take it at a certain time, pushing the curves up. And at higher scores, one question is valued at more--missing one question could drop you from a 2400 to a 2360, but only from a 1600 to a 1590. Something like that?
Each test has a slightly different scoring table—that’s true. But the differences aren’t due to...
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