Then: The Gospel of Matthew
Now: 40 Days and a Mule: How One Man Quit His Job and Became the Boss
More then and now book titles at kottke, some good stuff. Originally from your monkey called via waxy. Do you have any good ones?
How about:
Then: The Book of Jonah
Now: Prophecy, Pity, and Survival via Passive Aggression
You’ve seen two piano players at one keyboard, how about two guitar players sharing one guitar?
Now does anyone else find four arms on a guitar quite disconcerting? Or is it just because I play guitar and am quite used to seeing one hand picking and one hand on the fretboard?
This is a lovely bit of storytelling in a somewhat unique medium.
Go read this. I don’t want to spoil it with a teaser but here’s a little bit to maybe spark your interest.
What sounded like a steel cyclone hurtling from the sky toward my bow. It was a hideous, ungodly, and inevitable caterwaul. Like all hell falling at once and nowhere to turn. Nowhere to go. Except the one heading every captain prays his boat never takes: down. I looked up, saw the blur of the cow catcher, then everything changed.
The story of 6 year old Jani Schofield’s fight with schizophrenia is profoundly troubling:
A new imaginary friend named 400-the-Cat moved in. He told her to kick and hit other people. “We realized she didn’t control her imaginary friends. They controlled her,” Michael says. Many phantoms populated her mind now: two little girls named 100 Degrees and 24 Hours; 200-the-Rat; Magical 61-the-Cat; and 400.
Her father’s blog is also difficult to read.
Metafilter poster Drastic’s description of the situation as a fractal heartache is indeed apt:
The entire story’s a kind of godawful fractal heartbreak–no matter how you zoom into it, every piece contains just as much heartbreak as a wider view.