Monthly Archives: July 2009
a dark fraught place
Mid day I walk up & down Church St, a street the business of which takes place at other times. I walk up & down looking in shop windows until I reach the Rose & Crown at the junction with … Continue reading
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caught
S sends me Vanessa Gebbie’s Words from a Glass Bubble. I am captured instantly by the first three paragraphs of the title story, which begins– The Virgin Mary spoke to Eva Duffy from a glass bubble in a niche halfway … Continue reading
Filed under books & reviews, writing
fantastic women
If you missed Jo Cammack’s The Time of Their Lives on BBC4, it’s still available on iPlayer. Watching it, I thought: Would it be possible to kettle the women of the Mary Fielding Home for the Active Elderly ? Somehow … Continue reading
Filed under outright politics
the monster group
Lara Pawson is blogging again, at Unreal. Ben Tye has been blogging his return to climbing after a lay-off–a subject of deep interest to me–at Ben’s Simple Blog (check out his Flikr stream too). Looking forward to Alexander Masters’ book … Continue reading
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lunar clandestino
Paul McAuley has this. Looking at it I realised that I’m no longer interested in a world in which a WW2 bomber hasn’t been found on the Moon.
Filed under lost & found, science fiction
fear & loathing by the rochdale canal
She has so many emails from writers, the bookshop owner says, that sometimes it’s hard to get any work done at all! In those few words the Calder Valley clamps down on you as relentlessly as it did on any … Continue reading
Filed under the postmodernised landscape, writing
see you next week
Under the title Grumpiness Is the Fifth Truth Condition, Infinite Thought has this– Heine recalling his meeting with Hegel in Berlin. Heine, expressing his appreciation of the night-sky, was met with this response from Hegel: ‘The stars, harrumph, the stars … Continue reading
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