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.

Netflix is getting really pushy via email: FINISH THIS SHOW. YOU LIKE IT. (I’ll just continue to amuse myself by giving your algorithm a coronary, thankyouverymuch.)

From the writing sanctum walls:

Dog-children + vanquished toy.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of Control and the Polyrhythmic Manifestations of Its Lack

Live-action Dr. Mario from a Japanese commercial for Dr. Mario World, via Supper Mario Broth.

You Can Now Have a Multisensory Experience of a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room Online, Thanks to the Broad’s ‘Infinity Drone’, via artnet.

America’s Pandemic War Games Don’t End Well, via Foreign Policy.

Insulin Patch Could Provide Cheap, Simple, and Effective “Cure” for T1D, via Insulin Nation.

Shi-An: A Tea House Made From 4000 Units of Origami, via Spoon and Tamago.

Lawnmowing season = podcast-listening season. Though I have quite a backlog, feel free to send me some of your favorites.

EarBliss, 04apr2020… WE ARE SENT HERE BY HISTORY, by Shabaka and the Ancestors.