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Like Anicca, Anatta is pointing to the inverse of a specific mental event, Atta. Atta is a little hard to translate, we can translate it as more like a verb or more like a noun (Pali is weird). If we see it more like a noun it might be translated as ‘essence’ and if we translate it like a verb it might be translated as ‘to take/have control/ownership of.’
Neurotic Gradient Descent: (mis)Translating the Buddha
neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com
But, for connoisseurs of C-SPAN, serial failure made for riveting television, at least by that network’s normal production standards, which veer more toward vintage Soviet broadcasts than toward “Real Housewives” or the N.F.L. on Fox. The usual approach features locked-down cameras focussed tightly on individual speechmakers, a rigid mise en scène only occasionally enlivened by a wide-angle shot of the House floor, as if cutting to security-camera footage. But as the G.O.P. butted heads with its own rump faction, humiliating the Party’s nominal head Kevin McCarthy through round after round of losses, C-SPAN’s cameras, freed from their normal strictures for reasons we’ll get to in a moment, were panning and zooming and cutting back and forth with an almost cinematic brio.
C-Span Unleashes Its Inner Scorsese
newyorker.com
I have to think the population of people for whom $15 is too pricey but $8 is just right is pretty small. Getting people to pay for digital content is hard, but the big challenge is getting someone from $0 to $0.01 — the act of commitment to payment.
Can’t afford $40/month? The Financial Times wants to tempt you with a subset of its stories at a fraction of the price
Joshua Benton
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