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We are sequential beings. Actions cannot be undone; life, as we experience it, cannot be reversed. The irreversibility of human life is the source of our pain and also our wonder. Spinoza’s Rooms by Madeliene Thien.| inkdroid
I recently finished Madeleine Thien’s The Book of Records and found this in the acknowledgements at the end: The Book of Records, guided by histories, letters, philosophies, poetry, mathematics and physics, is a work of the imagination. I am indebted to the library, and to librarians, archivists and translators, for their companionship and light–they are the steadfast keepers of the building made of time. I like how this blends the people and infrastructure of libraries and record keeping...| inkdroid
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I recently spent some time looking up metadata for DOIs in the Crossref API at work. Here a few takeaways in case you ever need to do it too: it looks like the most you can look up at a time is 49 using the https://api.crossref.org/works/?filter=doi1,doi2,… endpoint. when looking up 40 at a time the responses take on average 8.08 seconds to return (std dev 5.97) if any of your DOIs fail to match this regex the entire request will fail with a HTTP 400 error r”^doi:10.)/.+$“ the server ca...| inkdroid
The One Thing in Life by Gerald Stern Gerald Stern: If I could choose one poem of mine to explain my stance, or my artistic position, it would be “The One Thing in Life,” which appears in Lucky Life. In this poem I stake out a place for myself, so to speak, that was overlooked or ignored or disdained, a place no one else wanted. I mean this in a psychological and metaphorical and philosophical sense. When I think about the place “no one else wanted,” I think of an abandoned or despise...| inkdroid
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