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The neuroscience of how you enter your fantasy-realms
If you grew up reading Harry Potter (or Lord of the Rings, as the case may be), chances are you’d have liked to move to the world of Hogwarts (or Middle Earth), and spent time play-acting scenes in your head … Continue reading
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Tagged action network, anterior medial prefrontal cortex, fantasy fiction, functional magnetic resonance imaging, literature, mentalizing network
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A book on the Otherside
I walked into the bookshop. The first row of books had a label on it saying ‘Recommended’. I never touched those books. They were always too mainstream, and populism never read well. Instead, I was adept at finding books that … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Catch 22, Joanne Harris, Joseph Heller, literary critic, literature, reading, The Gospel of Loki
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Solving mysteries, by William & Adso
The following is an excerpt from The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco’s debut novel from 1980. The story is set in an Italian monastery in 1327, and is an intellectually heady murder mystery doused in symbolism and linguistic ambivalence. Two … Continue reading
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The Last Temptation
Today, I bought The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis. When I handed the Rs. 450 it cost over at the counter, it was a significant moment for me because for the last three years, after my reading habit had fallen … Continue reading
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