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All possible futures
So I’ve been wanting to write this for some time. It’s something to do with all possible futures. We have been to Cornwall as a family over the recent Easter holidays and on the return journey we stopped in a service station. One of the children had some sort of toasted Italian penny type sandwich …
I dream of Alaigne once more
Well after my fieldwork was completed and towards the end of writing this thesis I had a dream. Alaigne was a river and I was to cross the river. The water level was low compared to what I knew it could be and this was good because I wore Wellington boots that came up to …
I dreamed of Alaigne
“John thinks you are not honest – you don’t really care.” “But I’m here two weeks” I replied, wondering at first who John was at first. [Two weeks to complete this thesis John]
forgery at Wells
To enter the cathedral of Wells you must first pass through the cloister. The south west tower of the cathedral abut the arcades of the cloister. Entering at the back of the nave to your left are the lower rows of dressed masonry stone forming the base of one of the south west tower. Low …
Issac and Abraham
It came to me when talking about the film interstellar with Melissa. That the moment Abraham does not sacrifice his son Isaac is the very moment at which Isaac’s body becomes substituted by his emotional life. Whilst the sacrifice of the body ended it has been the sacrificial emotional life which took its place.
today it is music
I start the car to get to the shops and as is my habit I turn on the radio. It is tuned to radio four. The sound gets on my nerves. I press the preset button for radio three. I enjoy the music. Now on one hand I am lucky perhaps, I find myself listening …
agony of circular thoughts
I am bereft of belief in the uniqueness of the weft. I was sitting quietly at the back of the meeting looking at the sleeve of my sweatshirt top.The stitches were so fine, I was fascinated and started wondering how fine stitches might be made by hand? Could they be as small as this? Did …
iSiS?
Two things I want to write it down concerning ISIS. Firstly, I don’t find it particularly difficult to understand why young men and young women might choose to travel to fight with ISIS. Despite coming from a privileged background myself I was aggressively favourable towards the IR A in the late 1970s and early 1980s. …
ukraine
This I posted to facebook with trepidation – the situation is so unpleasant that it feels like a radical act to even publise an alternative point of view. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH35raTPVu8&w=560&h=315]