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Category Archives: words
Voxcxs
A great little prose poem i just discovered. V0XCXS. You know that ringing sound that you will perceive when you are in a very quiet area? Some people say this is an auditory-illusion brought about the ear’s inability to … Continue reading
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Trainspotting
Trainspotting is not a lifestyle choice. You do not wake up one morning and decide that it would be cool to start spotting trains. It is something you feel from the very beginning. You are not interested in girls, you … Continue reading
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Library emptied in life and literature.
Life has sadly imitated art as Stony Stratford Library steals the plot of “The case of the missing books” by Ian Samson. The fact: The library in Stony Stratford near Milton Keynes, England, urged its patrons to check out every … Continue reading
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Tagged Godforsaken Place, Library books, Library Closures, North Antrim Coast, Stony Stratford
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I’m sorry Alice
Maybe it is the recent experience of protesting against the pope that has me seeing paedophilia everywhere. Or, without knowing it, i’ve become a Daily Mail reader. Which gives much the same effect from completely opposite causes. Anyhow, somehow my … Continue reading
PostSecret
PostSecret is my new favourite blog. Not that my puny clicks will add much to the 354,708,351 they already have. Which makes me realise that this is yet another meme that i arrived late for. Or maybe, I came early … Continue reading
Steady on, old chap.
Paste some of your writing into the box on this site and they’ll tell you which author your style or vocabluary most resembles. It’s very frustrating that they don’t give any details of how they decide it or what stats … Continue reading
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Tagged Ian Fleming, james Bond, James Thurber, L-Space, nanowrimo, PG Wodehouse
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Moments of information
This is the moment Bill Clinton lied (to himself) A microexpression is a brief, involuntary facial expression shown on the face according to emotions experienced. They usually occur in high-stake situations, where people have something to lose or gain. Unlike … Continue reading
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Efforts to save endangered languages
I clipped this from the web six months ago, clearly intending to say something about it. Never quite got round to it at the time and now I have completely forgotten what that was. But I will post it up … Continue reading
Inherent Vice
[video:youtube:RjWKPdDk0_U] PEnguin have produced a trailer for Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel. The voice-over is provided by the man himself. [via Cosmic Variance]
Kings II K-edgeree
http://blog.newhumanist.o…whats-your.html My old mates at the New Humanist tried and largely failed to interview Genesis P-Orridge for their last issue but it’s not all bad news because it has spawned a new game and competition: combine your favourite book of … Continue reading
20 Wodehouse insults
frightful young excrescence piefaced litte excrescence slab of gorgonzola pig in human shape sheepfaced, shambling refugee from hell gastly sheepfaced fugitive from hell fatheaded ass popeyed bleater dithering idiot a dumb brick of the first water halfwitted gargoyle halfwitted Gadarene … Continue reading