July 2006 Archives
I suddenly wondered what exactly happens to your brain when you do that [repeat a word over and over until it's meaningless]. Do you unhook synapses or something? Do you make it so all references to that word only relate back to itself, instead of to what the word means? I wonder whether you could force yourself to erase a memory that way
That's positively one of the neatest ideas I've encountered in ages.
Facts and figures on the Publishing Industry
"58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school."
