by R J Andrews
Chapter 19: Creative Routines
197 When I write… Goldman (1983) p. 255. 198 Because play is often about breaking rules… Johnson (2016) p. 15. 199 There must be a complete belief… Shahn (1957) p. 52. • The child in me… The New York Times (1976). 200 Once you start writing… Goldman (1983) p. 124. • Do your homework… Ogilvy (1985) p. 11. • Those first months are as full of research as… Goldman (1983) p. 576. 201 Scientific theories are not ‘derived’… Deutsch (1985) p. 4. • Copy-Transform-Combine illustrations inspired by Ferguson (2010). • Remixing is a folk art… Ibid. 202 “makes my brain feel happy” is how David Rumsey described his love of maps to me. I immediately recognized we shared the same affliction.
Finale: Beautiful Tomorrow
203 “Beautiful Tomorrow” references the song “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” from Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress. • Press on with the work… Campbell (1972) p. 20. 204 “racing with machines” Brynjolfsson and McAfee (2014) pp. 188–192. • “information expands our knowledge, know-how, and imagination.” motivated by Hidalgo (2015) pp. 51, 71. • I am among those who think that science has great beauty… Curie (1937) p. 341. 205 We have developed speed, but have shut ourselves in… Chaplin (1940). • “feminine gathering narrative…” see Le Guin (1989) “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” • Art after all, is about rearranging us… Zander and Zander (2000) p. 3. • The design of charts and diagrams… Wainer (1997) p. 2. • To enhance the spread of ideas… Pinker (2014) p. 304. • It is a strange realism, but it is a strange realism… Le Guin (1989) “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.” 206 A boat is at once a motif of containment and journeying… Rao (2018). • “Possiblists have a clear idea…” see Rosling et al. (2018) p. 69. • We have to find new languages… Lupi (2017). • It is not the critic who counts… Roosevelt (1910). 207 To each of his charts the author has added… Stuart (1786) pp. 302, 305. • is certainly just; and I have attended to the hint. Playfair (1786) p. viii. • “I wish all data storytellers joy…” this closing is inspired by Goldman (1983) p. 585.
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