#(after all she states that he killed Lowell. For Major she -asks-. So i think she stll had hopes of him being alive and finding him)

[langernameohnebedeutung]

[aaknopf]

Today we present a preview of a major new biography of Sylvia Plath, Red Comet, coming this fall. Through committed investigative scholarship, Heather Clark is able to offer the most extensively researched and nuanced view yet of a poet whose influence grows with each new generation of readers. Clark is the first biographer to draw upon all of Plath's surviving letters, including fourteen newly discovered letters Plath sent to her psychiatrist in 1961-63, and to draw extensively on her unpublished diaries, calendars, and poetry manuscripts. She is also the first to have had full, unfettered access to Ted Hughes's unpublished diaries and poetry manuscripts, allowing her to present a balanced and humane view of this remarkable creative marriage (and its unravelling) from both sides. She is able to present significant new findings about Plath's whereabouts and her state of health on the weekend leading up to her death. With these and many other "firsts," Clark's approach to Plath is to chart the course of this brilliant poet's development, highlighting her literary and intellectual growth rather than her undoing. Here, we offer a passage from Clark's prologue to the biography, followed by lines from one of Plath's celebrated "bee poems."

from Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

The Oxford professor Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf’s biographer, has written, “Women writers whose lives involved abuse, mental-illness, self-harm, suicide, have often been treated, biographically, as victims or psychological case-histories first and as professional writers second.” This is especially true of Sylvia Plath, who has become cultural shorthand for female hysteria. When we see a female character reading The Bell Jar in a movie, we know she will make trouble. As the critic Maggie Nelson reminds us, “to be called the Sylvia Plath of anything is a bad thing.” Nelson reminds us, too, that a woman who explores depression in her art isn’t perceived as “a shamanistic voyager to the dark side, but a ‘madwoman in the attic,’ an abject spectacle.” Perhaps this is why Woody Allen teased Diane Keaton for reading Plath’s seminal collection Ariel in Annie Hall. Or why, in the 1980s, a prominent reviewer cracked his favorite Plath joke as he reviewed Plath’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Collected Poems: “ ‘Why did SP cross the road?’ ‘To be struck by an oncoming vehicle.’ ” Male writers who kill themselves are rarely subject to such black humor: there are no dinner-party jokes about David Foster Wallace.

Since her suicide in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become a paradoxical symbol of female power and helplessness whose life has been subsumed by her afterlife. Caught in the limbo between icon and cliché, she has been mythologized and pathologized in movies, television, and biographies as a high priestess of poetry, obsessed with death. These distortions gained momentum in the 1960s when Ariel was published. Most reviewers didn’t know what to make of the burning, pulsating metaphors in poems like “Lady Lazarus” or the chilly imagery of “Edge.” Time called the book a “jet of flame from a literary dragon who in the last months of her life breathed a burning river of bale across the literary landscape.” The Washington Post dubbed Plath a “snake lady of misery” in an article entitled “The Cult of Plath.” Robert Lowell, in his introduction to Ariel, characterized Plath as Medea, hurtling toward her own destruction.

Recent scholarship has deepened our understanding of Plath as a master of performance and irony. Yet the critical work done on Plath has not sufficiently altered her popular, clichéd image as the Marilyn Monroe of the literati. Melodramatic portraits of Plath as a crazed poetic priestess are still with us. Her most recent biographer called her “a sorceress who had the power to attract men with a flash of her intense eyes, a tortured soul whose only destiny was death by her own hand.” He wrote that she “aspired to transform herself into a psychotic deity.” These caricatures have calcified over time into the popular, reductive version of Sylvia Plath we all know: the suicidal writer of The Bell Jar whose cultish devotees are black-clad young women. (“Sylvia Plath: The Muse of Teen Angst,” reads the title of a 2003 article in Psychology Today.) Plath thought herself a different kind of “sorceress”: “I am a damn good high priestess of the intellect,” she wrote her friend Mel Woody in July 1954.

Elizabeth Hardwick once wrote of Sylvia Plath, “when the curtain goes down, it is her own dead body there on the stage, sacrificed to her own plot.” Yet to suggest that Plath’s suicide was some sort of grand finale only perpetuates the Plath myth that simplifies our understanding of her work and her life. Sylvia Plath was one of the most highly educated women of her generation, an academic superstar and perennial prizewinner. Even after a suicide attempt and several months at McLean Hospital, she still managed to graduate from Smith College summa cum laude. She was accepted to graduate programs in English at Columbia, Oxford, and Radcliffe and won a Fulbright Fellowship to Cambridge, where she graduated with high honors. She was so brilliant that Smith asked her to return to teach in their English department without a PhD. Her mastery of English literature’s past and present intimidated her students and even her fellow poets. In Robert Lowell’s 1959 creative writing seminar, Plath’s peers remembered how easily she picked up on obscure literary allusions. “ ‘It reminds me of Empson,’ Sylvia would say . . . ‘It reminds me of Herbert.’ ‘Perhaps the early Marianne Moore?’ ” Later, Plath made small talk with T. S. Eliot and Stephen Spender at London cocktail parties, where she was the model of wit and decorum.

Very few friends realized that she struggled with depression, which revealed itself episodically. In college, she aced her exams, drank in moderation, dressed sharply, and dated men from Yale and Amherst. She struck most as the proverbial golden girl. But when severe depression struck, she saw no way out. In 1953, a depressive episode led to botched electroshock therapy sessions at a notorious asylum. Plath told her friend Ellie Friedman that she had been led to the shock room and “electrocuted.” “She told me that it was like being murdered, it was the most horrific thing in the world for her. She said, ‘If this should ever happen to me again, I will kill myself.’ ” Plath attempted suicide rather than endure further tortures.

In 1963, the stressors were different. A looming divorce, single motherhood, loneliness, illness, and a brutally cold winter fueled the final depression that would take her life. Plath had been a victim of psychiatric mismanagement and negligence at age twenty, and she was terrified of depression’s “cures,” as she wrote in her last letter to her psychiatrist—shock treatment, insulin injections, institutionalization, “a mental hospital, lobotomies.” It is no accident that Plath killed herself on the day she was supposed to enter a British psychiatric ward.

Sylvia Plath did not think of herself as a depressive. She considered herself strong, passionate, intelligent, determined, and brave, like a character in a D. H. Lawrence novel. She was tough-minded and filled her journal with exhortations to work harder—evidence, others have said, of her pathological, neurotic perfectionism. Another interpretation is that she was—like many male writers—simply ambitious, eager to make her mark on the world. She knew that depression was her greatest adversary, the one thing that could hold her back. She distrusted psychiatry—especially male psychiatrists—and tried to understand her own depression intellectually through the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Erich Fromm, and others. Self-medication, for Plath, meant analyzing the idea of a schizoid self in her honors thesis on The Brothers Karamazov.

Bitter experience taught her how to accommodate depression—exploit it, even—in her art. “There is an increasing market for mental-hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don’t relive, or recreate it,” she wrote in her journal. The remark sounds trite, but her writing on depression was profound. Her own immigrant family background and experience at McLean gave her insight into the lives of the outcast. Plath would fill her late work, sometimes controversially, with the disenfranchised—women, the mentally ill, refugees, political dissidents, Jews, prisoners, divorcées, mothers. As she matured, she became more determined to speak out on their behalf. In The Bell Jar, one of the greatest protest novels of the twentieth century, she probed the link between insanity and repression. Like Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, the novel exposed a repressive Cold War America that could drive even the “best minds” of a generation crazy. Are you really sick, Plath asks, or has your society made you so? She never romanticized depression and death; she did not swoon into darkness. Rather, she delineated the cold, blank atmospherics of depression, without flinching. Plath’s ability to resurface after her depressive episodes gave her courage to explore, as Ted Hughes put it, “psychological depth, very lucidly focused and lit.” The themes of rebirth and renewal are as central to her poems as depression, rage, and destruction.

“What happens to a dream deferred?” Langston Hughes asked in his poem “Harlem.” Did it “crust and sugar over—/ like a syrupy sweet?” For most women of Plath’s generation, it did. But Plath was determined to follow her literary vocation. She dreaded the condescending label of “lady poet,” and she had no intention of remaining unmarried and childless like Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop. She wanted to be a wife, mother, and poet—a “triple-threat woman,” as she put it to a friend. These spheres hardly ever overlapped in the sexist era in which she was trapped, but for a time, she achieved all three goals.

They thought death was worth it, but I Have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping? Where has she been, With her lion-red body, her wings of glass?

Now she is flying More terrible than she ever was, red Scar in the sky, red comet Over the engine that killed her— The mausoleum, the wax house.

from “Stings” by Sylvia Plath

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[thefriedlibrarian]

Let's Begin: Tinfoil Butterfly Chapters 1-3

So before I begin, I felt the need to express that, if you’ll be reading along with me, there’ll be MAJOR spoiler alerts!

Like, I��m not holding anything back.

But, for those who don’t mind it, you may continue!

So Imma be blunt with y’all (pun completely intended), this book just screams mature content within the first few pages, and it threw me completely off-guard. Like, right off the bat, it uses crude language and sexual themes and I am here for it, not because I’m a horny b*tch, but because that’s the attention getter. For some of you, that might be a turn-off, and usually when authors try to begin a book in such a way, mature readers tend to frown on it, but Moulton used it to give us a basic idea of what kind of characters we’re dealing with.

This girl named Emma Powers is the kind of girl you’d let ruin your life, and that’s almost exactly what this guy Lowell let her do. Which, by all means, I know wasn’t intentional, but with the contents Emma found inside of his beloved van “Veronica” (handcuffs which bound them together, the gun, etc) you canNOT convince me that he didn’t have some serious kinks. With the background given, I found that Emma is hitching rides from strangers (and apparently having her fun with them as well,) after being hospitalized. She talks about the scars on her stomach, and it makes me wonder how she got them in the first place, any sane person would. But what makes it more questionable is on Page 8, she says “I’ve decided to stop taking the Vicodin. To be drug free for the first time in several years,” kind’ve opens the mind to the fact she must’ve had a drug addiction issue, which explains the high-school girl mentality that came into play when she decided to hitch a ride from Lowell simply “because he’s hot.”

Now from the way she described Lowell, as a tattooed, tall and toned male with a daughter, an alcohol problem and a God-complex, he sounds like exactly the kind of guy I’d go for; that is, if I was homeless, jobless, single and desperate, but we’ll go with it. The reason he even let her in the van was because of her breast size (which she explicitly states are Double-Ds) and he was hatching a plan to retrieve his daughter from his ex-girlfriend. I don’t recall what that plan was, or if it was even mentioned, other than when Emma came to that realization herself, but what I do know is that he was probably going to kill the ex-girlfriend, after mentioning that she thought running back to her parents would “protect her.” All bad vibes, brodie.

Somewhere around that point, this psycho Emma pulls the gun on Lowell and I almost lost it, guys. The way he antagonizes her reminded me of those games where the bad guy is trying to fill the good guy’s head with all kinds of bullsh*t because they know they’re about to die, and then the good guy is just like, "you annoy me," and kapow, dead.

Y’all can be mad at me for this, but I kinda space-read the next few moments, so all I remember is they went from being in Veronica to Emma standing in the headlights and Lowell went back behind the wheel. But this part is really important in character background because we figure out the she has a dead brother who was murdered and the cops are looking for her because they think she was involved somehow, and she wants no part of that. Yet, that brings me back to one of the questions Lowell asked when she originally pulled the gun, “have you ever shot somebody?” She doesn’t confirm it but she doesn’t deny it either. She only states, “don’t act like you have.” So, my suspicions are that maybe she was involved in the murder, but not as the killer.

Another thing to keep in mind is that Lowell accuses her of sleeping with her brother, and she doesn’t confirm or deny it either, only that he was her step-brother and he needed to mind his damn business.

After a bit more bitter banter back and forth (you like what I did there?), she takes a few shots and finally manages to hit his leg, and gets giddy about it, the thicc psycho. She leaves him with blankets and says she’ll call for help, which she kind’ve does, and takes off with Veronica. It sorta got me before she took off though, after she told him she'd call him an ambulance or something, he said he'd tell the cops all about her and where she's headed, and all she says is, "you do that." I might not know too much about the "criminal lifestyle" but I'm for certain that you wouldn't take a threat like that so lightly. In fact, anybody else would have killed him right on the spot. But she also goes on in her head that once she gets to the badlands, her goal is already achieved. What exactly could that goal be?

Now she goes on this monologue about her Step-brother and how he would talk about these buildings that he’s never been to as if they were his personal experiences, which is an art form in itself. And as he dove so deep into these subjects he would tell her about, he would get depressed and seclude himself into a room where he’d create these paintings and such, and she would leave him alone. She also says that a less-selfish person unlike herself would’ve brought him back regardless of what beautiful, deep, and dark art he could create from it. But then Emma goes on to explain that the reason for leaving him alone for so long was that she would always search the art he made to see if she could find herself because she “longed to be that horror, that thing he obsessed over for so long.”

At this point, it’s got me thinking that maybe she was involved with his death, but it wasn’t a murder. The way she talks about him makes me believe three things:

She was most definitely madly in love with her Step-Brother.

This love she had for him was possibly unrequited.

He killed himself and she tried to save him, and the cops believe it was murder, which number two would definitely be a probable cause, a petty probable cause, but still a legitimate one nonetheless.

It still doesn’t explain why she was in the hospital before Lowell snatched her up, but I’m going to guess that maybe this was a case of a Romeo-Juliet ending, except Juliet didn’t fake-die and Romeo had legitimate mental health issues. Oh, and the love was hella one-sided.

Anyway, Emma drives far enough to find this "Earlenette's Diner" with a payphone that only dials 555 to share bigfoot stories. She passes out inside the Diner while trying to make something to munch on after discovering that the fuel pumps next to it had went dry, and Veronica wasn't getting any for the night. When she comes to, she hears somebody walk in the diner. When she goes to check it out, this kid shoots at her with the gun she stole off of Lowell. He misses and disappears, leaving Emma and I both cautious and confused because who the eff does this little boy think he is shooting at somebody? Emma shouldn’t have been so careless, but then you have to remember that she’s in a really abandoned place in the middle of nowhere, and she was expecting to be completely alone.

He drops the gun after almost blowing Emma away, and she picks it up and sticks it in her pants (hopefully not like Cheddar Bob in 8 Mile). She then brought up the pain she felt from the heat after being fired, and that she was letting it burn her. I know I wouldn’t have let it burn me, but then again, I don’t exactly have something already eating away at me that dilutes the physical presence, which is what I suspect is so important.

When she walks out to make her way back to Veronica, the little boy is there again. They have this back-and-forth spiel of trying to figure each other out that reminds me specifically of Hugh Jackman and the little boy in the movie, “Real Steel.” He disappears and reappears various times in their interaction, which means he’s very good at being quiet, which is crazy for a self-proclaimed eight-year-old (he blurts out different ages to Emma, and this is the only one she believed. 

He ends up with a cigar that she gave to him to try, but he puts it in his back pocket, and proceeds to tell Emma that she doesn’t need it. Bold of him to assume she wanted it anyway after going on about how she hid them from Lowell because she got tired of the smell, but go off, I guess. He also stole her Vicodin, and when she asked for it back, he says George has them. No background, no introduction, just a simple “George has them.”

The weirdest part about their conversation wasn’t the dialogue itself, it was the fact that the boy was wearing a tinfoil mask he made from a butterfly mask specifically used for luring in unsuspecting birds, and when asked why he was wearing it, the boy says it’s because half of his face was melted by a lightning bolt, and daddy controlled the weather including the lightning. And when he was born, daddy wanted a girl, so he struck him with lightning. At first it was quite odd, but I had to remember for a second that kids deal with trauma a lot differently from adults, and this unlikely story has to be a code for something his dad put him through, not to mention I think his dad is making him wear the mask. 

He said he learned how to “prerepose” things, which is one of his words for “repurpose,” from his mother who had passed away, and that it had just been him, a woman who’s acting like his mom, and his dad for a long time. Emma suspects after learning the boy’s name is Earl that his mom was the owner of the abandoned diner (Earlenette’s Diner), which would make logical sense. Maybe she was. Maybe when she died, his father (who we can assume is the George he was talking about) decided to close it down for good.

 The third chapter ends off with them embarking on a miniature quest to go meet this George who this little boy says Emma won’t get along with, which she is prepared for. She just wants to be able to get the gas out of the deteriorating gas pumps next to it, and Earl said George knows how. At only three chapters in, I’m already having a helluva time trying to keep up, and I will most definitely reread it in a sober state, but it also leaves us with many, many questions. 

I appreciate you guys for reading all of this, and hopefully you’ll be back for chapters four through six here in a few days. Please, feel free to add your input, ask questions, or share your work with me! I’d be more than happy to oblige!

[jonathanalumbaugh]

Weekly Digest

Dec 16, 2017, 3rd issue.

A roundup of stuff I consumed this week. Published weekly(ish).

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Whoever your graphic design portfolio site is aimed at, you have to remember that people’s time and attention is limited. Employers, to take one example, may look at dozens of portfolios in the space of 10 minutes. So you only have a few seconds to really grab their attention and enthuse them.

—8 great graphic design portfolio sites for 2018

Paying for more than 3,500 daily drinks for six years, it turns out, is expensive. The NIH would need more funding—and soon, a team stepped up to the plate. The Foundation of the NIH, a little-known 20-year-old non-profit that calls on donors to support NIH science, was talking to alcohol corporations. By the fall of 2014, the study was relying on the industry for “separate contributions to the Foundation of the NIH beyond what the NIAAA could afford,” as Mukamal put it in an e-mail to a prospective collaborator. Later that year, Congress encouraged the NIH to sponsor the study, but lawmakers didn’t provide any money. Five corporations—Anheuser-Busch InBev, Diageo, Pernod Ricard, Heineken, and Carlsberg—have since provided a total of $67 million. The foundation is seeking another $23 million, according to its director of development, Julie Wolf-Rodda.

—A MASSIVE HEALTH STUDY ON BOOZE, BROUGHT TO YOU BY BIG ALCOHOL

When Starbucks (SBUX) announced that it was closing its Teavana tea line and wanted to shutter all of its stores, mall operator Simon Property Group (SPG) countered with a lawsuit. Simon cited in part the effect the store closures might have on other mall tenants.

Earlier this month, a judge upheld Simons' suit, ordering Teavana to keep 77 of its stores open.

—America's malls are rotting away

The Dots claims to have a quarter of a million members and current clients include Google, Burberry, Sony Pictures, Viacom, M&C Saatchi, Warner Music, Tate, Discovery Networks and VICE amongst others.

—Aiming to be the LinkedIn for creatives, The Dots raises £4m

The Cboe's bitcoin futures fell 10 percent Wednesday, triggering a two-minute trading halt early Wednesday afternoon.

—Bitcoin futures briefly halted after plunging 10%

Through a very clever scheme, the people behind Tether can continue to send Bitcoin into the stratosphere until it reaches a not-yet-known breaking point. 

—Bitcoin Only Has One Way To Go If This Is True

—Bitcoin Price Dilemma: Bull and Bear Paths in Play

—Botera – Free Font

"He is being a huge assh*le and avoiding you so it literally forces you to be the one to break up with him because he's too much of a coward to do it himself. GOD, I HATE GUYS."

—"Breakup Ghosting" Is the Most Cowardly Way to End a Relationship

—Britain rejected the EU, and the EU is loving its new life

“Although the science is still evolving, there are concerns among some public health professionals and members of the public regarding long-term, high use exposure to the energy emitted by cellphones,” Dr. Karen Smith, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer, said in a statement.

—California Warns People to Limit Exposure to Cellphones

There is a way CSS can get its hands on data in HTML, so long as that data is within an attribute on that HTML element. 

—The CSS attr() function got nothin’ on custom properties

“The recent coverage of AI as a single, unified power is a predictable upshot of a self-aggrandizing Silicon Valley culture that believes it can summon a Godhead,” says Thomas Arnold 

—Former Google and Uber engineer is developing an AI 'god'

Here are two facts: 1) Throughout the tail end of Matt Lauer’s tenure at NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America beat it in the ratings, and 2) In the two weeks since Lauer was kicked to the curb for sexual misconduct and replaced by Hoda Kotb, Today’s viewership has surpassed GMA’s by a considerable margin.

Here are two opinions: 1) No one ever really liked Matt Lauer, but tolerated him as you would a friend you’ve known for 20 years but have nothing in common with anymore, 2) Hota Kotb makes everything better.

—A Funny Thing Is Happening to Today Now That Matt Lauer Is Gone: Its Ratings Are Going Up

The game challenges you to build an empire that stands the test of time, taking your civilization from the Stone Age to the Information Age as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, advance your culture, and go head-to-head with history’s greatest leaders.

—Get the newest game in 'Sid Meier’s Civilization' series for 50% off

Amazingly, despite the mind control and hypnosis, the girl resisted being totally drawn into her father’s “cult of three.” But she suffered from self-loathing and took to self-harm as a coping mechanism.

—Girl’s father tortured her for a decade to make her ‘superhuman’

The most searched for dog breed was the golden retriever.

—Google's top searches for 2017: Matt Lauer, Hurricane Irma and more

"A few months ago, I started collecting stories from people about their real experiences with loneliness. I started small, asking my immediate network to share with their friends/family, and was flooded with submissions from people of all ages and walks of life.

"The Loneliness Project is an interactive web archive I created to present and give these stories a home online. I believe in design as a tool to elevate others' voices. Stories have tremendous power to spark empathy, and I believe that the relationship between design and emotion only strengthens this power.

—Graphic designer tackles issue of wide-spread loneliness in moving campaign

While the Windows 10 OpenSSH software is currently in Beta, it still works really well. Especially the client as you no longer need to use a 3rd party SSH client such as Putty when you wish to connect to a SSH server.

—Here's How to Enable the Built-In Windows 10 OpenSSH Client

In America we have settled on patterns of land use that might as well have been designed to prevent spontaneous encounters, the kind out of which rich social ties are built. 

—How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult

Today was "Break the Internet" day, in which many websites altered their appearance and urged visitors to contact members of Congress about the pending repeal (see the gallery above for examples from Reddit, Kickstarter, GitHub, Mozilla, and others).

—How Reddit and others “broke the Internet” to support net neutrality today

“He’s the Usain Bolt of business for Jamaica,” Richards said. “For each Jamaican immigrant, Lowell Hawthorne is me, he’s you. He was the soul of Jamaica, the son of our soil, and all of our struggles were identified with him.”

—How the Jamaican patty king made it to the top — before ending it all

—How to break a CAPTCHA system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning

After the trap has snapped shut, the plant turns it into an external stomach, sealing the trap so no air gets in or out. Glands produce enzymes that digest the insect, first the exoskeleton made of chitin, then the nitrogen-rich blood, which is called hemolyph.

The digestion takes several days depending on the size of the insect, and then the leaf re-opens. By that time, the insect is a "shadow skeleton" that is easily blown away by the wind.

—How the Venus Flytrap Kills and Digests Its Prey

Back at The Shed, Phoebe has arrived. She's an intuitive waitress who can really get across the nuances of our menu, like how – by serving pudding in mugs – we're aiming to replicate the experience of what it's like to eat pudding out of a mug. 

—I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor

In order to create a candlestick chart, you must have a data set that contains open, high, low and closevalues for each time period you want to display. The hollow or filled portion of the candlestick is called “the body” (also referred to as “the real body”). The long thin lines above and below the body represent the high/low range and are called “shadows” (also referred to as “wicks” and “tails”). The high is marked by the top of the upper shadow and the low by the bottom of the lower shadow.

—Introduction to Candlesticks

The object in question is ‘Oumuamua, an asteroid from another star system currently zipping past Jupiter at about 196,000 miles per hour, too fast to be trapped by the sun’s gravitational pull. First discovered in mid-October by astronomers at the Pan-STARRS project at the University of Hawaii, the 800-meter-long, 80-meter-wide, cigar-shaped rock is, technically speaking, weird as hell—and that’s precisely why some scientists think it’s not a natural object.

—Is This Cigar-Shaped Asteroid Watching Us?

I tried out LinkedIn Career Advice and Bumble Bizz over the course of a work week and compared them in terms of how easy they are to use and the kind of people they introduce you to.

—I tried LinkedIn's career advice app vs. dating app Bumble's version and discovered major flaws with both

“The Bitcoin dream is all but dead,” I wrote.

—I Was Wrong About Bitcoin. Here’s Why.

—Jessen's Orthogonal Icosahedron

In the study, depressed patients who got an infusion of ketamine reported rapid relief from suicidal thoughts—many as soon as a few hours after receiving the drug.

—Ketamine Relieved Suicidal Thoughts Within Hours in Hospital Study

We are trying to create an Open Source Website that searches through an open database of Interactive Maps focused on learning in a linear way. It leverages all of world’s knowledge in a unique way. It takes the Wikipedia model of curating knowledge but applies it to curating links in a meaningful and visual way.

—Learn Anything White Paper

"It was a very new word [in 1841]," Sokolowski said. "[Noah Webster’s] definition is not the definition that you and I would understand today. His definition was, 'The qualities of females,' so basically feminism to Noah Webster meant femaleness. We do see evidence that the word was used in the 19th century in a medical sense, for the physical characteristics of a developing teenager, before it was used as a political term, if you will."

—Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2017: 'Feminism'

The Wall Street Journal issued a new note on its style blog earlier this week, suggesting the publication not write about millennials with such disdain.

"What we usually mean is young people, so we probably should just say that," the new WSJ note reads. "Many of the habits and attributes of millennials are common for people in their 20s, with or without a snotty term."

—'Millennials': Be Careful How We Use This Label

As of writing, the CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) is at $16,743 levels. The world's largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has appreciated 0.72 percent in the last 24 hours, going by CoinMarketCap data.

—No Stopping? After New High, Bitcoin Price Eyes $20k

People who tested as being more conscientious but less open were more sensitive to typos, while those with less agreeable personalities got more upset by grammatical errors.

"Perhaps because less agreeable people are less tolerant of deviations from convention," the researchers wrote.

Interestingly, how neurotic someone was didn't affect how they interpreted mistakes.

—People Who Constantly Point Out Grammar Mistakes Are Pretty Much Jerks, Scientists Find

Hydrogen particles are made up of an electron and a proton. Exciton particles, then, are made up of an electron that’s escaped and the negative space it left behind when it did so. The hole actually acts like a particle, attracting the escaped electron and bonding with it; they orbit each other the same way an electron and a proton would.

—PHYSICS BREAKTHROUGH: NEW FORM OF MATTER, EXCITONIUM, FINALLY PROVED TO EXIST AFTER 50-YEAR SEARCH 

For reasons that people are now trying to determine, this weekend the internet turned its collective gaze to a short story called “Cat Person.”

Response to the story has varied from praise for its relatability to flat dismissal to jokes about how everyone is talking about a—Who’da thunk it?—short story of all things.

—The reaction to “Cat Person” shows how the internet can even ruin fiction

—Regular Icosahedron

—Repeal Day Poster – Summit Brewing Co.

[Dr. Simon Bramhall of the UK] pleaded guilty to charges that he etched his initials, “SB,” onto the livers of two transplant patients with an argon beam in 2013. Bramhall admitted the assaults in a hearing in Birmingham crown court on Wednesday, according to several news outlets.

—SB WUZ HERE: Surgeon pleads guilty to burning initials into patients’ organs

I get what you’re doing. Really, I do. You’re trying to shit on people’s musical tastes to either appear more well-versed in music than them or you just want to see the shocked look on people’s faces as you besmirch their favorite band. And listen, I don’t blame you for either. They’re both fun activities that I partake in on the reg. If you name me a band you like, I will find a hundred different ways to judge you on your taste. If the band happens to feature a white guy with dreads, make it three hundred. But The Beatles, dude? The fucking Beatles? You are really scraping the barrel if you are knocking people for liking The Beatles, you moron. 

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The font the menu is written in can convey similar messages; for instance an italic typeface conveys a perception of quality. But using elaborate fonts that are hard to read could also have another effect – it could alter how the food itself tastes.

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On Allison Benedikt, Lorin Stein, and the perils of extracting universal principles from fairytale endings...

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Watched

—Jessen's Orthogonal Icosahedron

[snarktheater]

The Chemist — Chapter 31

So, the resident pretty boy is dead. Well, one of them, anyway, since…you know, they're twins. But the one that mattered to our protagonist is dead, and so we should feel sad.

Or we can follow Alex as she angsts that he was in the position with the least risk and OMG, why did it have to be him? Which…is a way to handle grief, I guess, but it's still phrased in a pretty flabby way. Like, the one time you could go high with emotions, you just…have Alex think back to a gangster she couldn't save after he was shot in the same way. Because when you want to make us sad about a character's death, making it all about another character's sense of failure is totally the way to go, right?

Wrong. Duh. That sense of failure can add to the tragedy of the moment, sure. In this case, it falls pretty flat since Alex has spent the past few chapters telling us she expected them to get shot at, and Alex was in no position to defend Daniel, so there's no failure beyond…"bringing him here", I guess. And the book doesn't even use that point of pathos—no Alex questioning whether Carston really did need someone to watch over him, for instance. Meanwhile, the thing that should make us care about Daniel dying, such as their relationship…barely mentioned.

It's such a perfectly imperfect way to handle grief it can only mean one thing.

He was breathing.

Yep, turns out the bullet missed Daniel's heart, in spite of being "perfectly placed". Remember how Daniel told us he was a "mirror-image" twin? No? Well, me neither, but I guess it was setup. And because Meyer doesn't understand that a setup needs a reminder if the payoff is going to be so long afterwards…this is what we get. I gave credit where credit wasn't due. I should be angry, but frankly, I'm strangely comforted by the thought that Meyer really is as predictable a writer as I expected her to be. It's like the universe makes sense again.

I mean, seriously. Even Alex doesn't remember about the mirror-image twin thing; she just goes "okay, bullet missed, I guess" and starts making planning to extract him so she can patch him up. Admittedly the right reaction, but it just goes to show how botched the setup is if the character doesn't even go "oh!" right after it happens.

Meanwhile, Carston is dying. I'm going to believe that he's dying because Alex spent the past few minutes angsting over Daniel's "dead" body while he was still alive. Because he is still alive, just enough for Alex to reveal the obvious.

“Lowell, it’s okay. I never poisoned Livvy. Of course not.”

Well, gee, I'm shocked to know that. But from there to say that it's okay…you know, he's still dying. But no, apparently this is good enough for Carston.

“Proud of you, Jules,” Lowell Carston wheezed quietly. “You managed to hold on to your soul. Impressive…”

She still tortures people, so…that's a very relative notion of morality you've got there, Carston.

Also, yes, that ellipsis is an indication of this being his last word, because the rule of drama dictates that people only ever die after giving a powerful final line. Or…"powerful". You get the idea.

They start making their way out, which means moving the unconscious Daniel without reopening his wounds, and only then does Alex remember about the mirror-twin thing, because…I don't know, the book remembered it had to explain things all of a sudden, I guess.

And the way out is…completely clear all the way to the elevator. Which…what? What's the point of setting your climax underground if your characters have no issue getting to the elevator and exit it on the ground floor? And where is everyone?

everyone must have rushed to the observation room when the shooting started.

…Really? Everyone?

Anyway. Kevin confuses the one remaining guard by yelling for help before taking him out, because…everyone is stupid in this book…and Alex heads straight for the car, with Kevin asking her to "let him finish up here". Whatever that means (and I assume we're about to find out), I should point out that Kevin doesn't know where the car is. How's he going to find them? Just look around and hope for the best?

But Alex cares more about her pretty boy, so she goes for the car and patches up Daniel. And…suddenly she starts fearing that she won't be able to keep Daniel alive? I don't know where this comes from, honestly.

Kevin kills any dramatic tension the book might have built up as he comes back with all the security footage from the facility (because…when you run a covert, somewhat treasonous torture operation, you totally want to record the whole thing, right?), and they drive off. And then they start talking about what to do about Daniel. Alex insists he needs a hospital, which would mean handing him over to "the bad guys".

“Didn’t we just kill the bad guys?” “Pace is still in charge, Ollie, till he slaps the right patch on, and given the current stress level, he might just start smoking again.”

So…yeah, I guess Deavers died off-screen. What a satisfying ending to that story, right?

Kevin comes up with an alternative plan: give Alex access to surgical equipment, so she can perform the surgery Daniel needs. Which…sure, whatever, she's a Mary Sue, she can totally handle this fatal wound knowing just "the basics" of surgery (her words).

And…we just skip it all. Both the search for equipment and a place to operate, and the surgery. We get a scene break to Alex post-operation, exhausted by the surgery we didn't get to see. It went well, surprise surprise, and they got the help of a Dr Volkstaff whom I don't think we've been introduced to, but hey, why not introduce a last-minute doctor, right? It's just a giant Deus Ex Machina, who cares!

She thought about what they had accomplished tonight, what she had almost traded Daniel’s life for. Deavers and Carston were dead. There might not be another person alive – besides Wade Pace – who knew she existed. And his hours were numbered. Hopefully.

"Not another person alive"…except for the brothers, Val—who, shall I remind you, Kevin stated he only trusted as long as he paid her—and now this Dr Volkstaff whom we know literally nothing about.

We also get some hand-waving of consequences, for good measure. Because this whole chapter was Mary Sue-esque enough yet. So Olivia's kidnapping? Alex wrote a note claiming that she was just a mother who confused Olivia with her own child. And apparently she expects this to mean the police won't look any further because Olivia's home now. Yes, really.

Daniel wakes up, and he…recaps how he got shot, because that was apparently a major mystery since last chapter. The answer is…Deavers realized he was being double-crossed and ordered Carston shot along with his "aide". Wow, I never would have guessed, thanks for that. It's not like you're once again wasting all the potential emotional payoff of their reunion by focusing first on a completely unnecessary infodump.

He also assures Alex that he doesn't regret anything that happened between them. Yes, I guess that includes her torturing him for no valid reason. Although I'm not entirely sure the book still remembers that even happening, because the way it's phrased, it sounds like he's just talking about all the times Deavers's men targeted hem.

They get to exchange their "I love you", which is meaningful because it's the first time Alex says it, they banter some more, until Alex hears someone outside. Cue short, tense moment, until Alex realizes it's just Val and Einstein, and everything's still fine. Gee, what a shock, the book will commit to its lack of conflict until the bitter end.

Val and Alex fuss over the boys, who are apparently too stupid to realize that cut toes and near death means you shouldn't stand for a while, everyone gets their respective reunions, complete with this bit.

[Alex] found herself half on [Kevin's] lap, her arms pinned under his, and there was nothing she could do when he decided to kiss her full on the lips with a wet, resounding smack. “Hey!” Daniel protested. “Get your face off my poison woman!”

Assault is fun and worthy of banter, right?

And then we heap more praise on Mary Sue, for good measure.

“What a performance! I can’t believe you just walked in there and busted me out! Never tell me you aren’t black ops – honey, you’re what black ops dreams about being!”

Yes, she's better than black ops. Really.

There's also a weird moment where Kevin won't let Alex go until Einstein and Daniel both threaten him. I…think it's just supposed to be playful, but it's still making me uncomfortable. Why did you include this?

Want more stupidity? "Dr Volkstaff" is the Beaches' family veterinarian! And ignoring the issues of how that works into his ability to perform surgery on a human, I have to point out that if you want to be incognito/leave no trace that you're alive, going to someone connected to your family is probably not a good idea. But hey, everyone's dumb in this book, so…whatever.

Volkstaff does show a small hint of practicality, at least, by forcing Alex and Kevin to get some rest while Val watches over them all. Alex, of course, only does so with Daniel's blessing. Because agency is not a thing for women in Meyer's world.

“Be a good girl and get some sleep like my old family vet ordered you to.”

Like…I realize this is meant to be teasing, probably, but was it really necessary? No. No it wasn't.

And with that, we close the penultimate chapter in this book. Just one more and the epilogue to go. Honestly, I'm not sure they'll be very eventful, but hey, at least it's almost over!

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My dad lend me his car....but im not in his insurance because i dont live with him. If a cop stops me can he give me a ticket for no insurance? I live in Texas by the way.

How much would it cost to insure these cars?

How much a year would it cost to insure a: 57 reg Renault Clio 1.1L and a 57 reg Vauxhall Corsa 1.1L I'm 18, female live off the main road and the car would be kept on a driveway, i live in a quiet little village in Derbyshire, the insurance groups for both are group 1. It will be used to drive to and from college each day so around 20 miles a day, no enhancements on the car, cars have done 17,000 miles, i have had my license for 1 month. Thanks.""

""What are the requirements for getting a license and driving in Tennessee, age,insurance,cost,et cetra.?""

What are the requirements for getting a license and driving in Tennessee, age,insurance,cost,et cetra.?""

Will my car insurance rates go up after my first fender bender?

I'm sixteen years old and i got into my first fender bender. I was at fault, but the officer at the scene said that the damage was minor and would probably be less than 400 dollars. However, I was just wondering if my parent's insurance rate would go up ( I'm under their name) and whether or not it would just be easier to pay out of pocket. And if it did go up, how much do you think ( i live in Tennessee )""

Do you get insurance when you are a RN?

when you are a resister nurse will you get insurance incase you get hurt

United Healthcare Insurance?

My family will be switching over to them on August 1. Does anyone out there have this insurance and how do they like it?

I am 22 Years Old. I Live in Ireland. How can I buy cheap car insurance?

I am 22 Years Old. I Live in Ireland. How can I buy cheap car insurance?

CAN I GET CLASSIC CAR INSURANCE AT 17?

im turning 17 and love old cars i was just wondering were i could get classic car insurance

Where in missouri can i get insurance with a suspended license?

i know it all depends on what state ur in and the guidelines, but does anyone kno wher i can get cheap car insurance with a suspended license. i need to get my car registered but cant do it without insurance, plz only answer if u kno insurance companies specifically that will allow me to get it""

Does life insurance cover suicide?

Does life insurance cover suicide?

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Cheapest car insurance companys for 21year old with kids?

Some where that takes into account my situation rather than age. Ta

Both me and my sister are new drivers. Would it be cheaper to get joint or separate car insurance policies?

We are planning to buy a car together and are looking to reduce insurance costs. Also, since i have already passed my driving test and she is yet to do so, would i get charged more for getting a single policy and then adding her onto it later when she finally passes. Or would this final sum amount to the same?""

""What is the MAX for pain and suffering, coverd by insurance companies in CA?""

What I'm trying find out is what is the max, and what is fair, and what is likely, to get from a car accident? IF you know someone that knows forward this to them please!! I have over $10K in Medical and another 10K for missed work, plus I'm still not back to 80% moreover, am still in pain 90% of the day and night, 18 months later. So that is that worth?? If you asked me its millions, but I was told $35,000 was the max the insurance company will cover. Which is all the lawyer will really go after, right?? The insurance is offering to pay out 35K now, what do I do!! I could hire a lawyer, but would I get any more! I think not!! Moreover I would net less; after the lawyer takes their 30% and expenses, right?? What should I do and how to do it?""

Am having two different auto insurances on two different cars but are both in my name.Is it legal?

I have 2 cars, I just bought one cash. So I already have full coverage on one car and its paid for 6 months, and I want to add insurance on the other but with a different insurance company because it is cheaper and I will be getting only liability. Is it legal to be carrying different insurances or are they required to be both with the same company? I live in Texas! Thanks in advance!""

How I Know Credit Card Insurance?

I would like to learn Credit card Insurance. Is it available in banks? How do i know, which bank offer very attractive manner? Which are all the bank tie up with insurance company? How to calculate the premium amount, sum assured and relevant details? Please give me detailed query.....""

How can i boost my torque and speed on my subaru impreza 2.5i?

I didn't buy the WRX or STI cause of the cost for insurance. So the turbo is kinda out, unless someone could find me a special turbo for 2.5i. I don't think there are any though. I just want to make my car faster in acceleration and torque. Money doesn't matter, but I would like to know how much some stuff costs.""

Which car would have higher insurance premiums?

I'm trying to figure out what car i want for my 16th birthday.. I've absolutely fell in love with the subaru wrx hatchback. the only thing im worried about is the fact that the insurance rates Might be high. i also like the mazda speed 3 and i was wondering which would be more expensive insurance wise. Also what you think about them being first vehicles. and please no<, you should get a POS for a first vehicle... Thanks in advance!!""

Good car insurance sites?

Would like to know if any of you know of any good car insurance sites. I am a student who will be driving a fiat punto/ maybe even a skoda fabia.

Car insurance 1st driver uk cheapest & best one to go with.. thanks?

thats all i want to know cheers :)

In what company can I buy cheap car insurance.everybody are very expensive.?

In what company can I buy cheap car insurance.everybody are very expensive.?

""After car insurance expires, how many days do you have to renew it?""

My friend just got his car towed for no insurance, I thought you have 30 days after the effective date. Can someone please tell me so I can help him get his car back. SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY!""

My health insurance paid for medical bills incurred from a car wreck. Can it come after me for reimbursement?

now I have received a settlement from the car insurance. Can the health insurance now collect the money it paid out . If so how long do they have to request the money form me?

""Life insurance is 750,000 enough for 3 kids ?""

is 750,000 enough to get three kids from age 1,3,5 through high school and college or do i need lots more""

Bmw 1992 insurance cost?

what is the insurance cost for 1992 bmw 352i???

How many hours do you have to work in California to be eligible for health insurance?

I work 35 hours a week, and have no health insurance. Am I eligible? Should I question this?""

Car Insurance Help?

Where can I find Car Insurance with no license needed answer ASAP??

How much will my mom's car insurance go up after I crashed her car?

I'm almost 19, got my license about 8 months ago now. I was in a drive-thru going only 10 KM an hour at most and accidentally rear ended a car after I panicked and accelerated. My mom's car definitely had the most damage done. All of the other people involved only had slight dents or scratches. I think the damage is around $3000. I know my mom has really good insurance and I'm pretty sure it's no-fault (and it happened on a private property). How likely is it that her insurance will go up? Oh and for the record my mom has NEVER had a ticket or been involved in an accident before. Stupid me.""

Is there a way for me to get affordable car insurance?

hi im a college student in NYC i am single and live alone in a studio apartment in Brooklyn NY i work in an armani exchange store and at the moment im also going for acting and have already nailed some gigs. My question is if anybody knows how i can get car insurance under $4000 (BTW i dont have any1 living in another state) i checked most companies and they offer 10-13k either a year or 6 months so please if any1 knows how i can get insurance help me out i am in dire need of a car.

First year car insurance for 17 year olds for a small car?

Has anyone recently passed there driving test and brought car insurance? If so how much did it cost and for what car? I don't want answers just saying thousands , I would like people who've recently got car insurance.""

""Moved out of state, Can I still be on my parent's car insurance?""

I just graduated college and moved to California. I bought a new car in Iowa before I left and my parents cosigned the loan. We registered the car in Iowa, saying my name first or my father. Since then, they have brought the car out here. Am I able to stay on my parents insurance (Farm Bureau) even though I am no longer a resident of Iowa or their house? Also, am I required to register the vehicle in California even though he is on the loan and the current provider of insurance?""

Cost of insurance for minor with acura rsx-s?

oh fyi I am not trying to get my own insurance plan I am adding on to my family's

""Camaro insurance, gas and racing information?""

Does anyone know how much insurance will be for a soon to be 16 year old '89-'93 Camaro driver? I've heard that Camaros are gas guzzlers and my boyfriend lives a half hour away and that could get quite costly. So, this may be a retarded question, but is there anyway I could get better gas mileage? Any other helpful information on Camaros would be great. Also, I intend to start racing with my boyfriend, would a '89-'93 Camaro be a good racing car? What should I do to make an average Camaro into a good, fast car? Thanks in advance everyone! :]""

How much is insurance for an Eagle Talon?

I need a new car, and I found a great deal on a 95 Eagle Talon, but my dad says that the insurance would be too high since I recently got into a car accident, and I'm only 19 years old, and because of course, it's kind of a sports car. Does anyone know about how high the insurance would be for someone living in Missouri? Any help appreciated.""

Argh! Insurance rates went up?

So my friend and I were out driving his car and when he got out at a store, I hopped in the driver's seat. I have a class 5 license, so it's all legal there. We weren't speeding or doing anything illegal, we had nothing to hide, so everything was legit. However, pulling out of a four-way, an officer pulled us over because our tail lights were busted. Of course, I had no idea and basically the officer just issued a warning to my friend (he's the owner of the car, so he did most of the talking). However, the officer did take my license and took a while with it; in this time I had no idea what he was doing. There was nothing but politeness and courtesy exchanged in the end we just drove straight to the party we were headed to. At the party though, there was some guy who put his hand out to shake mine for Insurance rates going up . This guy's on an ego-trip so I had no care about what he had to say at all but now I'm kind of worried. Question: Did my insurance rates go up for driving without tail lights? I understand that, as driver, I'm fully responsible of the vehicle, but the owner was with me and so he doesn't have to be the one that gets tagged with the record for this??? I live in Canada and the officer didn't inform me of anything like this. Help, please and thank you.""

Where can I get affordable health insurance for an infant?

I'm having a baby around the first week of December, and I need to figure out how best to set up health insurance for her without going bankrupt. I looked into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, and to be eligible for a child-only plan, the baby has to be atleast one year old. For us to get a family plan the cost is absolutely through the roof, more than our monthly income, and even then the child is only covered from 6 weeks of age. Does anyone know of any companies that will insure a baby from birth, without the parents having to be insured? I'm giving birth at a birthing center, and one of the terms of care is that I have to take the baby to a pediatrician within 72 hours of birth. No decent pediatrician will accept us without insurance. I think we may actually be eligible for Medicaid, but I don't want to go that way because high quality doctors don't accept that around here. So can someone please suggest a company that I can go to to insure my baby affordably, in Florida.""

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Calibre

A full moon rose overhead, causing the entirety of the forest to be illuminated. I walked down my midnight path like every other night with Jenna, my five year old husky, traveling beside me. The owls hooted and the bats screeched in the distance. The aroma of flowers seemed to be all that was filling the forest.

Jenna let out a low growl and pointed her snout to face a silhouette in the distance. The person heard her and took a stance that looked ready to fight if it had to. What could this person be doing out in the woods so late? I thought to myself.

“You there!” I called out, hoping the person wasn’t out to spill my blood.

The person began to approach us and Jenna’s growling turned into barking. I put my hand on her head to calm her down when the man came into the light.

He looked familiar, but I couldn’t pinpoint his identity. He was short, wore a black cloak, and was excessively undernourished as if he hadn’t eaten in days. I contemplated giving him the trail mix that I stored in my camera bag.

“Who are you?” I asked in my kindest voice.

His eery reply confused me. “I don’t even know.”

“Where are you from?” I asked, trying to pry the information from him.

“I don’t know that either.”

At this point, I was getting a little frustrated at his answers. “What do you know?”

He darted his eyes down in both sadness and shame. “Not much. All I can remember is being strapped down on a table as a woman was slaughtered.”

Looking again, I noticed his entire body was battered and scarred. He had clearly taken a rough beating recently. I had to find more about him; his familiar face was plaguing my mind with vague memories that I couldn’t surface. “Can you remember your name?” I probed, trying not to bring up any more traumatic memories.

Reluctantly, he replied. “Yes. As the woman was being murdered right in front of me, she was yelling to me the name ‘Michael’.”

Suddenly, memories of decades ago came flooding back to me. I remembered him. Michael Jordan Williams was his name. I remembered. He was one of my best friends at Lowell High School. We had parted ways at my graduation and hadn’t spoken since. I remembered him being a year behind me, but that had not stopped him from being stronger than me. I decided to lead him toward Banryu, my RV. “Come with me” I said, leading him backwards through the forest trail.

As we got close to Banryu, I began to hear the howling of wolves. I looked up to see the moon directly above me at midpoint.

Reaching the silver and red automobile, I unlocked the door and let Michael and Jenna inside. I made a comfortable place at the table for tavis and I to sit on opposing ends. I then pulled out the trail mix from my camera bag and gave it to him. He ungraciously began to scarf it down as if he had never eaten before.

The thought of him not having a memory of anything other than that devastating recollection bothered me greatly. “So, does that mean you have amnesia?” I unintentionally thought aloud.

“What’s that?” He asked, clearly answering my question.

“It’s when you lose all of your memory.”

“Then yeah” He said, disappointed.

There was a dragged out silence between us. Questions began to spin in my mind about my old friend. How did he lose his memory? Who was the woman that he saw get killed? What happened in the years we were apart? All the questions I had in my mind he couldn’t answer, but was also the only one that could answer them.

“Listen,” I began. “28 years have passed since we last talked.”

Tavis had a state of shock on his face as if I was the answer to his prayers.

I continued. “We were classmates and the best of friends back in Lowe-”

“So you can help me get my memory back?!” he interrupted. “You have to tell me more about myself! It may be the only way to figure out what happened to me!”

I was glad he was opening up to me. He seemed intent on hearing of his past, so I began to relate what he used to be like.

I described how Michael had major anger issues, and that the only thing that calmed him down was his girlfriend. I explained how, to him, friendships were either a close connection or disposable links. I explained how we used to hang out at the Lazer Tag arena in San Francisco and how he would always win because he always worked better under pressure. I began to recount how constantly broke the laws of nature to gain supernatural powers and skills as well as how when I asked why he did that he replied “Because science!”

Michael seemed amazed at how much I knew about him. “How did you remember all that from 28 years ago?” he asked.

“You were my best friend and hoped we’d meet again one day.”

“Sure enough, here we are.” He paused for a moment in thought. “I remember now.” He said ominously. “After we parted ways, I dropped out of the IB program at school and then graduated. After, I went to Durham College in Canada like I had planned. Once I got a successful job in video production, I married the love of my life and we had one daughter that I adored. Her name was Ruby and she was born 19 years ago.”

“I see,” I said quietly. Reluctantly, I continued with a daring question. “What do you remember about the woman you remembered earlier?”

Michael closed his eyes with a frown on his face. “It was her.” He said softly. “It was Ruby…”

I got up and sat next to him, putting my hand on his shoulder he had experienced his worst fear come to life: not being able to protect the ones he loves. “Who did this to your family?”

“Mr. Calibre, a vicious crime mob boss who I may or may not have threatened the life of. All of my family is dead. I barely escaped with my life.”

I got up. “If this Mr. Calibre is after your head, then I need to get you away from here”

I sat in the driver's seat and started Banryu’s ignition and we drove from Utah to Iowa without breaking. After the 17 hour drive, we stopped at another forest close to a mountain that Jenna and I had visited a few times.

I got up and went to the refrigerator. Remembering that Michael loved cupcakes, I got out a box I had stored away and gave it to him.

After a few hours of relaxation inside Banryu, we decided to go for a hike on the mountain.

Opening the door, we saw a scary sight. There was line of at least 50 men armed with AK-47s. In front of them all was a very short man in a blue and black trench coat. “Williams.” he said in his surprisingly high voice. “It’s funny how you think you can run away from us, but I’m not in the mood for comedy.”

Michael promptly responded to the situation. “Mr. Calibre! I wasn’t trying to run, I was simply-”

“I don’t have time for your pitiful excuses.” Mr. Calibre interrupted. To the men behind him he yelled “Ready men! Aim!” At that order, the men pointed their AK-47s toward us.

“Hold on!” Michael yelled with a desperate attempt for the both of us to cling to life. “I have a wife and family!”

“No you don’t.” He said chuckling. “Fire!”