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A collection of 202 posts

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Dream Science - Thomas Palmer

Obscure-ish, out of print novel of the supernatural (publishers designation not mine).. got it on the flimsiest of recommendations.. a contributor to this list liked a lot of my favourites and raved about palmer so figured it might be my cup of tea.. and so it was. Rockland Poole, the

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rail haiku

how to while away the hours in the sidings.. autumn leaves fall and we apologise for delays to your trains. a light dust of snow barely covers the ground but it scares the iron horse. i have some more i'll have to dig them out.

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dear diary

i am coming to realise that there is little point in keeping a diary if you never actually do anything. conversely, in an ideal world one would be busy doing things that one would have no time to write about them.

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looked at my watch it was 6\'n the mornin\'

i guess it's not their fault.. some peoples brains are wired up wrong like ice t and other all decent folk i'm an owl not a lark. my noodle takes a good ten hours to warm up.. i'm useless before noon, cranky all arvo,

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tom holt = york city

comic novelist tom holt tries hard but will never amount to anything.. i read one of his books.. i forget which (they do seem to have a certain sameness about them) it was mildly diverting with quite a steady rate of jokes per page.. but it wasn't premier

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you must remember this.

through no fault of my own, i saw a fair proportion of the film titanic on sunday night. belinda & kal had the telly on and though i was mostly reading 'a heartbreaking work of staggering genius' it was often hard to choose which semi-competant populist exploitation of

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genesis

After a few days of intensive effort I have the names and addresses of almost all the professional philosophers in Britain. Now I am wondering what to do with them. They will be used at least once... Over at New Humanist magazine we are trying to boost our circulation. Sending

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forty two

After a few days of intensive effort I have the names and addresses of almost all the professional philosophers in Britain. Now I am wondering what to do with them. They will be used at least once... Over at New Humanist magazine we are trying to boost our circulation. Sending

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call me fishmeal

Some months ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse and nothing to interest me in contempory fiction, i thought i would take up a one pound wordsworth classic edition of moby dick... and to cut a long story short, i was

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nostradamus!

thurs, 18th April 2003, 11:40pm just discovered that i can edit the time and dates on these postings so that they are dated into the future.. they get stored away where you can't see them until the time i specified when they appear just as if they

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with this book i thee wed..

i have an occasionally occurring fantasy that i will meet my future wife because i see her reading a really fantastic book on a train.. this is how i know she is a good egg and is also how we get into conversation. (did i mention that i am on

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the people\'s republic of yorkshire..

i think it's time to step up the campaign for an independent yorkshire.. because i've just realised we already have our national anthem in waiting.. Wheear 'as tha binn since ah saw thee? On Ilkla Moor baht 'at Wheear 'as tha bin since

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Herman

Herman was an ordinary eight year old. He had brown hair, a best friend called Errol and he wanted to be an astronaut. He was perfectly ordinary, but extraordinary things were always happening to him. Extraordinarily often and for as long as he could remember. So often and for so

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are you looking at me?

For the past week or so I've been reading "Schizophrenia and Related Syndromes" (PJ McKenna, Psychology Press, 1997). Now it has struck me that this might not be a very wise thing to do. Learning about deranged minds is an intrinsically interesting and worthwhile activity, but

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yen monks

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce

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differently motivated

I am not exactly lazy, conscientious but unambitious to me the phrase 'being driven' conjures up chauffeured limo's rather than psychotic over-achieving.

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modern wisdom

a journey of a thousand miles should begin with a trip to the bathroom.

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stop writing.. the exam is now finished

you would think that now that my psychology exams are over, the nightmares would stop too.. but if anything they are getting worse.. in the cramming period and while they were underway i did have a number of very vivid dreams of the usual symbolism.. not getting to the hall

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Einstein = Atheist

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being  systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious

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the simian army grows

compare with six macaques attack macbeth sssssssssssssssssssssssssslassssmsjs ssslssssllslsssssaasssssaasfllssxsss

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procrastination

phew, after much frenzied agony I have just handed in large amounts of psychology coursework. two 3000 word research proposals, outlining interesting phenomena in psychology and designing novel experiments to test these. I am rather proud of the end results but why is it that I always leave anything until

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the healing power of friday?

was out last night drinking a few drinks (best thing to do with them) wasn't too big & I was home by 3am & so had four or five hours sleep but it came as no surprise when I felt truly awful first thing this morning. made it

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good name for a baby

caspar is not a common name, but it is one I like. just bumped into a former boss of mine on the street. awkwardly catching up on the news of past colleagues, he rather sheepishly he told me that he has called his fourth child Casper!!! i really don'

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wonderland

I was in close proximity to a hero of mine on Thursday. And as I should have expected, it wasn't quite like I expected. Haruki Murakami was giving his first public appearance in this country at the Prince Charles cinema. Talking about his books and, more reluctantly, about

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Happy Birthday, Bill

Today is the birthdate of the most famous poet of them all. I have spent most of the morning searching the internet for a decent selection of extended passages. It is slightly woeful. Scattered about I have found snippets and stanza's, the well trodden lines we are all