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by Ron Samul There is a code to scuba diving that no manual can fully teach. It is learned through repetition, bad judgment, correction, and the private negotiations a person makes with fear in order to stay alive. In that code, a diver is always balancing curiosity against consequence, and the sea is always asking…
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by Ron Samul When Haruki Murakami said, “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking,” he was getting at more than literary taste—he was describing a way of existing in the world. Reading, for many people, is social currency: a way to participate in conversations,…
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by Ron Samul In The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra suggests that all human expression—whether poetic or scientific—renders reality only in approximation. Words, formulas, and even theories are “maps,” abstractions of a world that resists precise depiction. His idea first fascinated me not as a physicist, but as a writer. It illuminated how fragile the link…
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by Ron Samul July 2012 — Off Montauk — The Wreck of the U.S.S. Bass (Depth 160 feet) Hanging on the decompression line, I checked the valve of my dry suit and gazed down into the milky green. One hundred and sixty feet below me rested the wreck of the U.S.S. Bass—a Barracuda-class submarine, once a…
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by Ron Samul I grew up with video games, but not Halo or Red Dead Redemption. My first worlds came in pixel form — Adventure and Pitfall on Atari, then Top Gun and Tecmo Bowl on the NES. But the game that defined my rhythm — that made me see gaming as something closer to meditation — was Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Without that game, I wouldn’t still be…
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by Ron Samul Did you have an imaginary friend? What do you recall the most about them? When did they disappear? In an article I was writing about isolation and disappearing in a world of Covid-19, there was a section in the book How to Disappear: Notes on invisibility in a time of transparency by Akikko Busch.…
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by Ron Samul Do you use a journal when you are writing? Do you find long-hand writing helpful? I have been using a writing journal for a long time, but my journal is a complex work space — and it can be a disaster. It is filled with the hundreds of issues around my writing,…
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