Applied Metaphors: Learning TRIZ, Complexity, Data/Stats/ML using Metaphors
  1. Teaching
  2. Literary Jukebox: In Short, the World
  3. USA - Carson McCullers
  • Teaching
    • Data Analytics for Managers and Creators
      • Tools
        • Introduction to R and RStudio
        • Introduction to Radiant
        • Introduction to Orange
      • Descriptive Analytics
        • Data
        • Summaries
        • Counts
        • Quantities
        • Groups
        • Densities
        • Groups and Densities
        • Change
        • Proportions
        • Parts of a Whole
        • Evolution and Flow
        • Ratings and Rankings
        • Surveys
        • Time
        • Space
        • Networks
        • Experiments
        • Miscellaneous Graphing Tools, and References
      • Statistical Inference
        • 🧭 Basics of Statistical Inference
        • 🎲 Samples, Populations, Statistics and Inference
        • Basics of Randomization Tests
        • 🃏 Inference for a Single Mean
        • 🃏 Inference for Two Independent Means
        • 🃏 Inference for Comparing Two Paired Means
        • Comparing Multiple Means with ANOVA
        • Inference for Correlation
        • 🃏 Testing a Single Proportion
        • 🃏 Inference Test for Two Proportions
      • Inferential Modelling
        • Modelling with Linear Regression
        • Modelling with Logistic Regression
        • 🕔 Modelling and Predicting Time Series
      • Predictive Modelling
        • 🐉 Intro to Orange
        • ML - Regression
        • ML - Classification
        • ML - Clustering
      • Prescriptive Modelling
        • 📐 Intro to Linear Programming
        • 💭 The Simplex Method - Intuitively
        • 📅 The Simplex Method - In Excel
      • Workflow
        • Facing the Abyss
        • I Publish, therefore I Am
      • Case Studies
        • Demo:Product Packaging and Elderly People
        • Ikea Furniture
        • Movie Profits
        • Gender at the Work Place
        • Heptathlon
        • School Scores
        • Children's Games
        • Valentine’s Day Spending
        • Women Live Longer?
        • Hearing Loss in Children
        • California Transit Payments
        • Seaweed Nutrients
        • Coffee Flavours
        • Legionnaire’s Disease in the USA
        • Antarctic Sea ice
        • William Farr's Observations on Cholera in London
    • R for Artists and Managers
      • 🕶 Lab-1: Science, Human Experience, Experiments, and Data
      • Lab-2: Down the R-abbit Hole…
      • Lab-3: Drink Me!
      • Lab-4: I say what I mean and I mean what I say
      • Lab-5: Twas brillig, and the slithy toves…
      • Lab-6: These Roses have been Painted !!
      • Lab-7: The Lobster Quadrille
      • Lab-8: Did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?
      • Lab-9: If you please sir…which way to the Secret Garden?
      • Lab-10: An Invitation from the Queen…to play Croquet
      • Lab-11: The Queen of Hearts, She Made some Tarts
      • Lab-12: Time is a Him!!
      • Iteration: Learning to purrr
      • Lab-13: Old Tortoise Taught Us
      • Lab-14: You’re are Nothing but a Pack of Cards!!
    • ML for Artists and Managers
      • 🐉 Intro to Orange
      • ML - Regression
      • ML - Classification
      • ML - Clustering
      • 🕔 Modelling Time Series
    • TRIZ for Problem Solvers
      • I am Water
      • I am What I yam
      • Birds of Different Feathers
      • I Connect therefore I am
      • I Think, Therefore I am
      • The Art of Parallel Thinking
      • A Year of Metaphoric Thinking
      • TRIZ - Problems and Contradictions
      • TRIZ - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Available Resources
      • TRIZ - The Ideal Final Result
      • TRIZ - A Contradictory Language
      • TRIZ - The Contradiction Matrix Workflow
      • TRIZ - The Laws of Evolution
      • TRIZ - Substance Field Analysis, and ARIZ
    • Math Models for Creative Coders
      • Maths Basics
        • Vectors
        • Matrix Algebra Whirlwind Tour
        • content/courses/MathModelsDesign/Modules/05-Maths/70-MultiDimensionGeometry/index.qmd
      • Tech
        • Tools and Installation
        • Adding Libraries to p5.js
        • Using Constructor Objects in p5.js
      • Geometry
        • Circles
        • Complex Numbers
        • Fractals
        • Affine Transformation Fractals
        • L-Systems
        • Kolams and Lusona
      • Media
        • Fourier Series
        • Additive Sound Synthesis
        • Making Noise Predictably
        • The Karplus-Strong Guitar Algorithm
      • AI
        • Working with Neural Nets
        • The Perceptron
        • The Multilayer Perceptron
        • MLPs and Backpropagation
        • Gradient Descent
      • Projects
        • Projects
    • Data Science with No Code
      • Data
      • Orange
      • Summaries
      • Counts
      • Quantity
      • 🕶 Happy Data are all Alike
      • Groups
      • Change
      • Rhythm
      • Proportions
      • Flow
      • Structure
      • Ranking
      • Space
      • Time
      • Networks
      • Surveys
      • Experiments
    • Tech for Creative Education
      • 🧭 Using Idyll
      • 🧭 Using Apparatus
      • 🧭 Using g9.js
    • Literary Jukebox: In Short, the World
      • Italy - Dino Buzzati
      • France - Guy de Maupassant
      • Japan - Hisaye Yamamoto
      • Peru - Ventura Garcia Calderon
      • Russia - Maxim Gorky
      • Egypt - Alifa Rifaat
      • Brazil - Clarice Lispector
      • England - V S Pritchett
      • Russia - Ivan Bunin
      • Czechia - Milan Kundera
      • Sweden - Lars Gustaffsson
      • Canada - John Cheever
      • Ireland - William Trevor
      • USA - Raymond Carver
      • Italy - Primo Levi
      • India - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
      • USA - Carson McCullers
      • Zimbabwe - Petina Gappah
      • India - Bharati Mukherjee
      • USA - Lucia Berlin
      • USA - Grace Paley
      • England - Angela Carter
      • USA - Kurt Vonnegut
      • Spain-Merce Rodoreda
      • Israel - Ruth Calderon
      • Israel - Etgar Keret
  • Posts
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On this page

  • Carson McCullers
    • Story
    • Themes
  • Notes and References
    • Songs for the Story !!
    • Additional Readings
  • Writing Prompts
  1. Teaching
  2. Literary Jukebox: In Short, the World
  3. USA - Carson McCullers

USA - Carson McCullers

A Rock. A Tree. A Cloud.

Carson McCullers

Story

We will read McCullers’ astonishing story, A Rock. A Tree. A Cloud. PDF

Themes

  • What we might call weirdness in some people…wrongly!!
  • How to Know someone has Figured it All Out
  • How to Live
  • Bad Places and Bad Habits and Bad People…etc.

Notes and References

Songs for the Story !!


And sadly, Renowned country singer Toby Keith dies at 62 after battle with stomach cancer.

And so, maybe this one…


Additional Readings

  1. The Arrested Development of Carson McCullers. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/carson-mccullers-a-life-mary-v-dearborn-book-review. “A writer lives differently from people who don’t write.” Of course.

  2. “Pretend it’s a Seed, OK?” https://youtu.be/wKbUVxjh0mg

Writing Prompts

  1. “So long as you learn, it doesn’t matter who you learn from, does it?” ( Quote from “To Sir, With Love”)
  2. On being scolded for being in Bad Company
  3. Life Lessons from Graffiti?
  4. On seeing Artists and Designers everywhere…(bah!)
  5. A Strange Transformational Hobby…
  6. On being a Gig Worker
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India - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Zimbabwe - Petina Gappah

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