Inspiration: Linked Destinies

It can be quite striking when something mundane or technical is explained with a sense of the beautiful.

In the Fall issue of the Paris Review, Michel Houellebecq talks about the inspiration for his second novel, The Elementary Particles (or Atomised):

the experiments of Alain Aspect in 1982. They demonstrated the EPR paradox: that when particles interact, their destinies became linked. When you act on one, the effect spreads instantly to the other, even if they are great distances apart.

I like that.

The social writer

At LitDrift this week, this post from Tania Paperny called 'On Loneliness and Productivity'. We want to be social creatures, writers. Sigh. Quoting:

I need both. I need time set aside for reading. I need to hang out with my friends. I won’t be satisfied by my day if at the end of it, I read a great book, wrote a great short essay, but talked to no one.