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why i have to write about water
i try not to use this blog as a noticeboard for my own purposes, but i’ve been thinking a lot about the creative impulse and i have decided that everything is metaphor and metaphor is everything. this essay on language by john hughes (published in island) triggered something in my already quite manic brain. “Analogy…
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a…z
my ninety-nine-year-old grandfather passed away yesterday. he went politely, as was his style. the last thing he said to me was “take good care of the British language now, won’t you.” guess i’ll give it a good Aussie try. i recently finished the alphabetical reading challenge which has incidentally provided me with almost four months’…
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pitches & pictures
i did mean in that last post to write something about this frontier of image management i seem to be on and how having an (admittedly insignificant) public profile opens you up to all kinds of weirdness. the comments over at NM are often useful, informed remarks, but i do wish more folks would play…
