Author of Ghosts of the Burning City
Toronto, Canada
Joined March 2007
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Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
That one mind can reach out from its lonely cave of bone and touch another, express its joys and sorrows to another — this is the great miracle of being alive together. The object of human communication is not the exchange of information but the exchange of understanding. If we are lucky enough, if we are attentive enough, communication then becomes a system for the transfer of tenderness. themarginalian.org/2023/11/1…
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We wanted to quickly explain why school kids should learn markdown instead of MS Office, and ended up writing a major Epos on Markdown vs obsolete writing formats:
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Education of a Wandering Man, by @OutlawsPoetic open.substack.com/pub/poetic…
Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
Is it possible that existence
is our exile
and nothingness
our home?
~ Cioran
This writer set up a 'grammar table' to bring people together over a love of language.
cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/gram…
Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
The Libraries of Famous Men: Ernest Hemingway - buff.ly/HztnzR7
Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
― Patti Smith
Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
“To be alive at all is
to have scars."
- John Steinbeck,
born on this day in 1902.
Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
Born on this day in 1902, John Steinbeck won two Pulitzers and a Nobel for his fiction. But this existentially profound nonfiction account of a marine biology expedition is in many ways his greatest work: themarginalian.org/2022/11/0…
TypeTown #41: “Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
open.substack.com/pub/typeto…
Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
"The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend."
I was reminded of these beautiful words by Tennessee Williams from an interview he gave in the final months of his life. (He died on this day in 1983.) Here is his conversation with William S. Burroughs about writing and mortality: themarginalian.org/2014/11/1…
Luis Borba ● Author retweeted
Fascinating read on the psychology of flow and what game design reveals about the deliberate tensions of great writing themarginalian.org/2014/12/0…
