not according to Stephen Moss

Describing Zizek would test a Flaubert. The words flow unceasingly, delivered in rapid, strongly accented English, accompanied by a sniff after every phrase. He runs his hand through his unkempt hair, squeezes his nose, gets carried away by the sheer velocity and manysidedness of his thought. Zizek the magician, always with a new trick. But I worry about him – this perpetual performance. What about the man behind the mask? He says he has no friends, only academic contacts; is on to his third wife (“an Argentinian beauty”); is “too connected” to his seven-year-old son, with whom he has come to London. “I’m a bad father; I haven’t learned just to live with him; I all the time worry, ‘Is he enough amused?’ It make you very tired.” Another performance; more magic.

Stephen Moss runs into Slavoj Zizek

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Things I learned from today’s Guardian

Pamela Anderson is a vegetarian and an animal lover.

in the magazine section—Q&A:

What makes you depressed? That people who call themselves environmentalists still eat meat.

Clutter free isn’t necessarily the answer, so no need to feel guilty about living in a mess.

in the book review section:

A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder–How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place

...science is revealing that a little disorder makes physical systems more productive…

Still I prefer to get rid of clutter.

Nabokov has an unfinished work which may never see the light of day.

unless Dmitri decides not to carry out his father’s wishes to burn the index cards which contain the substance of the novel. He’s hinting however that he will burn the cards. Son hints he will burn Nabokov’s last work

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