Top Ten Lists

Top Ten lists are, as everyone who saw High Fidelity knows all too well, one of the great and ancient hallmarks of a music geek’s thinking. But I normally don’t engage in that. In fact, I’m usually far too haphazard about things. However, I have on occasion been asked to formulate a couple of lists for people who wanted to get into new jazz or explore things that they wouldn’t know to look into unless someone told them about it. I wrote this for a couple of people over on The Culture Mailing List. I know it’s cheating to make …

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Hamlet’s age, mirror neurons, immersive realism, and imagination

Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:58:46 -0400 To: (deleted) From: Gord Sellar Subject: Hamlet’s age, mirror neurons, immersive realism, and imagination CC: (deleted) BCC: (deleted) X-Attachments: Hey. I know, I know, this is long . . . Some of you might remember me asking you a question about Hamlet’s age. Others of you are having this inflicted on your for the purpose of farming out the ideas in the end of the thing, and hopefully eliciting responses. I have the answer to the Hamlet question, now, so I thought I would share what I found. But a much more difficult …

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