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Illustration of a bird flying.

  • Twitter

    Well, the Twitter plug-in has broken again, but perhaps that is for the best. One corner of the web should be free of my lunacy.

  • Visualising the Creative Process

    I was talking to someone about the creative process once and came up with some imagery for it. I described the initial phase as a kind of nebulous cloud; a haze that lurks around your head. It’s made up from the stuff of your life; here and there are vague forms, a ghost of a […]

  • Advice

    Giving out advice, however good, can be extremely dangerous to one’s health. I guess the reasons for this can be fairly complex; not least because the solutions to many problems are simply a matter of reasoning. Most people can reason; and if they are rejecting reason they are most likely in denial. Thus good advice, […]

  • Creators

    Oh what a tangled web we weave when we seek to conceive Rincewind stared at him, “Who ARE you?” The man took the pencil from behind his ear and looked reflectively at the space around Rincewind. “I makes things,” he said. “What sort of things?” “What sort of things would you like?” “You’re the Creator?” […]

  • Quality

    I apologise for the quality of the reviews; like much of this blog they were written as a personal reference and not intended to be published. Still, maybe they can serve as brief conclusions.

  • Review: Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

    As a huge admirer of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveller’s Wife it brings me no pleasure to say that her second major work Her Fearful Symmetry comes as a significant disappointment. Where Traveller’s was deep and visceral, impeccably composed, thrilling and emotive with rich and delicious characters, Symmetry (aptly for its title) is quite the […]

  • Meta

    I’m not sure about the legitimacy of a blog that has absolutely no consistency. What about you?

  • Makers

    In this situation I’m a representative. A martyr. Imprisoned, unable to grow. At the mercy of this resentment, this hateful millstone of envy of the Calibans of this world. Because they all hate us, they hate us for being different, for not being them, for their own not being like us. They persecute us, they […]

  • Review: After Dark by Haruki Murakami

    A single night is a night too many in the company of Haruki Murakami’s petite and pretentious After Dark, which compelled reading if only to fully appreciate the limits of its grotesquely crude idioms. One half-imaged the book, which reads as an unintended pastiche of post-modern literature, to be a tragic misadventure in Japanese/English translation; […]

  • Defying death

    At the risk of being accused of grandstanding/absolute stupidity, I just laughed in the face of death, don’t ya know? TAKE THAT DEATH, how’d you like being OWNED? Okay so I just had to fix my monitor as it was driving me crazy. I knew there was a way to do it. I researched it, […]

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