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Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the <\/span><\/i>Review\u2019<\/span>s site. Often we\u2019re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you. Here are some we found this month.
\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014Sophie Haigney, web editor, and Olivia Kan-Sperling, assistant editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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From William Stixrud and Ned Johnson\u2019s <\/span>The Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child: A Workbook<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(Penguin Life):<\/span><\/p>\n

Below we\u2019ve listed some research-backed statements about what an accurate model of reality looks like:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0…<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Money matters, but not nearly as much as we think it does.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0…<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019re actually not very good at predicting what will make us happy.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0…<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If we\u2019re on a bus or plane, we\u2019re happier if we talk to a stranger than if we keep to ourselves.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0…<\/p>\n

Some of these statements might sound familiar to you. They come from experts who have published books about their research.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From Joyce E. Chaplin\u2019s <\/span>The Franklin Stove<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/i>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>a passage about heating technologies and changing standards for \u201cpreferred indoor atmospheres\u201d throughout history:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new ideal of being warm indoors gradually moved down the social ranks, and the heating systems slowly improved. Among other things, this permitted greater privacy. Someone who could afford it might now keep warm behind a closed door, shielded from anyone who, in another household, might catch them reading banned books, writing bad poems (until they finally wrote a good one), indulging in idleness, conceiving a child\u2014or anything else they might prefer to do in peace and quiet. It was \u201calone in a stove-heated room\u201d in November 1619 that Ren\u00e9 Descartes had his foundational philosophical idea: \u201cI think, therefore I am.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From Helen Garner, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978\u20131999<\/em><\/a> (Pantheon), a retrospective entry:<\/span><\/p>\n

My father drove at speed along the Great Ocean Road. I hunched in the back seat, expecting to be steamrolled with horror at the sight of the burnt-out landscape, but like all such perverse hopes it was disappointed. Perhaps we were moving too fast. Perhaps I\u2019d already seen too much of it on TV while it was actually happening, or it was too long after the event. Perhaps it had nothing to do with me and I didn\u2019t really care. The thing that did strike me was the apparent deadness of the soil itself between the black, leafless trunks. Like radioactive dust.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From the transcript of a 1976 performance by Barbara T. Smith at CalTech, published in <\/span>I Am Abandoned<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/i>(Primary Information), which included a real-time dialogue between AI-pioneer Joseph Weizenbaum\u2019s DOCTOR, a then-cutting-edge chatbot designed to mimic a therapist, and PARRY, a program meant to simulate a paranoid schizophrenic:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n


\n[SILENCE]<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

YOU\u2019RE TRYING TO MAKE ME TALK BY NOT SAYING ANYTHING<\/span><\/p>\n

DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I WENT TO THE TRACK AT BAY MEADOWS A WHILE BACK<\/span><\/p>\n

I HOPE YOU LOST ALL YOUR MONEY<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I HAVE LOST A LOT OF MONEY GAMBLING<\/span><\/p>\n

HOW CAN YOU AFFORD MY FEE THEN?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

GAMBLING HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT TROUBLE FOR ME<\/span><\/p>\n

[SILENCE]<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

YOU\u2019RE JUST PLAYING GAMES AGAIN<\/span><\/p>\n

[SILENCE]<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(SHIFTS UNEASILY)<\/span><\/p>\n

WHY ARE YOU NERVOUS?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

WHY NOT?<\/span><\/p>\n

WOULD YOU LIKE SOME FREE CASH?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I\u2019VE HAD EXPERIENCES WITH CROOKS GAMBLING AT THE TRACK<\/span><\/p>\n

ARE YOU CALLING ME A CROOK?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(FED UP)
\n<\/span>(OFFENDED) GOOD BYE<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 FEAR = 13
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ANGER = 10
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 MISTRUST = 15.271250<\/span><\/p>\n

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