EarBliss, 10apr2020: MONUMENTS, by North Atlantic Drift.

Oh, look. Snow.

The Statue of Liberty’s Most Iconic Feature Was Originally Supposed to Look Very Different, Newly Discovered Drawings Reveal, via artnet News.

Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa (1888), via The Public Domain Review.

World of Warcraft experienced a pandemic in 2005. That experience may help coronavirus researchers, via The Washington Post.

EarBliss, 09apr2020: FOR THIS FROM THAT WILL BE FILLED, by Clarice Jensen.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Schedule Permutations and Squirrel Overlords-in-Waiting.

Thou Shalt Practice Social Distancing, via Foreign Policy.

Scoop: Staples refuses to pay landlords for April rents, via Axios.

Freestyle Libre Approved By FDA For Hospitalized Patients During Covid-19 Pandemic, via BeyondType1.

The Pandemic Has Driven Twitter to New Lows in Happiness, via kottke.org.

“Reconfigured” or purely fabricated? Coronavirus misinformation comes in multiple forms and demands multiple solutions, via Nieman Lab.

Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers, via The Verge.

The Best Hopes for a Coronavirus Drug, via The Atlantic.

No, autocorrect, I didn’t want to write “tofu king tired” but now that you went ahead and wrote it, I’ll admit that it’s not without a certain charm.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Odyssey: Of Minotaurs Vanquished and Midnight Wakings.

EarBliss, 08apr2020: DEPARTURES, Vols. 1 & 2, by North Atlantic Drift.

For the First Time in a Century, Conservators Took This Mummy Out of Her Coffin—and Found a Hidden Painting of a Goddess Buried With Her, via artnet.

Historian William Mann On How The 1918 Spanish Flu Changed Hollywood Forever & How COVID-19 Might Too, via Deadline.

Researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece, via Phys.Org.

Flushing out the true cause of the global toilet paper shortage amid coronavirus pandemic, via The Washington Post.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep07apr2020.

If you’re looking for something to read, I’ve been keeping a list of every book I’ve read for the last seven years. Hope you find something you enjoy.

Current rotation, 06apr2020.

Spies Are Fighting a Shadow War Against the Coronavirus, via Foreign Policy.

Work from home, they said. In Japan, it’s not so easy,via The Washington Post.

Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless*, via FiveThirtyEight.

Why the People Behind Quibi Are So Confident, via The Atlantic.

The Coronavirus Is Accelerating History Past the Breaking Point, via Foreign Policy.

EarBliss, 06apr2020… ELEPHANT, by Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Further Clarification of a Conversation, for Real This Time – Really.

“I felt, on the last page, that my story was a symbol of the man I had been as I was writing it, and that in order to write that story I had had to be that man, and that in order to be that man I had had to write that story and so on, ad infinitum.”

• Jorge Luis Borges, Averroës’ Search.

Personal path to effective writing days: write the first chunk by hand, save the typed version for later in the day. Fail to do so and all of the morning’s work is lost to my shitty handwriting.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… A Conversation/Chat, Clarified, Somewhat – for Coherence.