#bill donovan

[geographynerdaaaaa]

Ars paradoxica memes I made, severe spoilers ahead.

[wordsarelifereviews]

How gorgeous is this edition of Pride & Prejudice???

(Originally posted on my instagram)

[kkorny]

Have you ever had it where you've discovered that time travel is possible and that it's possible to send information through time and timelines but they need a person to man the system? So your colleagues and boss convince your wife to leave you to pursue her singing career then tell you that they manipulated your life? So you end up killing your boss with your bare hands, something he planned so that you would be so desperate as to accept their deal to be stuck in a room outside of time manning the aforementioned timeline information technology until you die? This happened to my buddy Anthony Partridge 😔

[thine-cosmos-king]

Given my most recent decent into madness (read; my first ongoing listen through of ars Paradoxica) I think it's time to write about something I was delighted to hear them talk about on the show.

Tense specific aphasia.

But before we get into that, let's answer a slightly more general question: what actually is aphasia?

Well, it's a disorder usually caused by a stroke ( or excessive time travel in this case) that damages the language area of the brain. This can result in difficulty understanding and/or producing words.

Specifically, tense specific aphasia is meant to be representative of a kind of agrammatic aphasia. In other words, a disorder where you can't get the grammar in your sentences quite right. This 'agrammatism' can be a symptom of Broca's aphasia, a common form of aphasia where you understand what's going on around you but you can't produce the appropriate language in response. Think of it like having trouble finding those words - like they're on the tip of your tongue all the time and you just can't reach them.

Verbs can be a particularly challenging area within an agrammatic subtype, especially non infinitive verbs. Or in terms that most of us don't have to look up on Wikipedia, words that have a tense attached to them: travelled/travelling, called/calling etc. As opposed to their infinitive counterparts (travel, call) which do not.

While the symptoms Donovan or Sally displays are a bit different from your typical aphasia, it's great to see such a neurologically complex and under represented disorder portrayed. I love that it has been so carefully linked as an outcome to messing with time. Mess with the timeline and the recoil will mess with your ability to describe what has-will be-is happening around you!

[kramlabs]

Excellent books for a better picture of Sullivan and Cromwell, Allen Dulles, 1947 / exotic technology, JFK, the rise and arc of Nixon, —all during a so-called Cold War and Space Race

[moviesframes]

The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)

Directed by Ben Lewin

Cinematography by Andrij Parekh

[morrithal]

Donovan: Please don't curse around the lab.

Sally: Mama Mia, thats-a spicy meatball.

Donovan: You know what, just say fuck.

[arsparadoxica]

What hte heck how did I never know Donny was based on a real person

Heck yeah he is!