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Month: September 2017
Mars blog: the BBC as the Wonderful World of Disney
Things have come to a sorry state of affairs, you might think, if I’m referencing the BBC’s woeful Horizon series in this blog, but honestly, this one isn’t bad. Or at least the first thirty seconds before I turned off … Continue reading
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The playground of untruth
John Le Carré: Nothing that I write is authentic. It is the stuff of dreams, not reality. Artists, in my experience, have very little centre. They fake. They are not the real thing. Quite right. We make things up, we … Continue reading
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Literally Friday word blog
Back in the day when “bloody” was quite a serious swear-word here in the UK – and those days did exist, my child – impish schoolchildren would follow it with an innocent “but I’m only quoting Shakespeare, sir!” Well, I … Continue reading
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Ishmael: though knowledge be little, yet of books there are a plenty.
Previously on Moby Dick (as they say): Ahab fights the whale, and the whale wins – Moby is wounded, but Ahab loses his leg. He swears vengeance (why?) and chases the whale over half the world, eventually finding him (or … Continue reading
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Away
My ancient and venerable computer has died and it is proving surprisingly hard to pick up my digital life from my even more ancient (but less venerable) iPad. Even tiny things like the blog password is proving an obstacle: I … Continue reading
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