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Some good things have come from Davos …
“It was here that Robert Louis Stevenson overcame his writer’s block and finished Treasure Island; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started skiing in the Alps; and Thomas Mann thought of the idea for The Magic Mountain”
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https://lithub.com/a-brief-literary-history-of-davos/
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Edited 1y ago
Love this.
A peer reviewed blank page was published in 1974, without revision.
The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block” by Dennis Upper.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a
Credit: Found this gem via ‘stephenknowstuff’ on another platform
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Edited 145d ago