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Goatie 4
The intercom is broken. Hughie can’t buzz me in, but somebody has solved the problem by wedging a brown bin in front of the reinforced door. I’ve...
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Goatie 3
I slept tranquilly. It gets to the stage where you become acclimatised to anything. Even prisoners at Auschwitz slept soundly. I’m in pretend mode...
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Goatie 2
I ponder my sleep-walking predicament. Apparently, I’m superhuman able to drink a glass of water without waking. I remember a case in which a man had...
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Goatie
MIASMA. That’s the word I was trying to remember. It’s all a bit stupid. It doesn’t really exist in the same way it did then as an invasive force. But you’ve still got the hangover of the word hanging like a bad smell.
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Maddy.
She could have laughed—her daughter, a mother. Madeline had been a fat baby. A happy baby with a heart like a sounding harp. She missed combing her...
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I'd rather take my chances
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
I'd rather take my chances with science and a testing of the null-hypothesis. That means researchers try and prove something doesn't work. When they conclude that something does work, they ask further questions and begin anew. Try reading Carl...
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trains from Victorian times,
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2024
trains from Victorian times, Victorian lines criss-crossing the world. They still rule in some continents. The dinosaurs may return?
Read full commentPosted in They Seem To Be Alive (re-write)
settling in. Old
Posted on Tue, 17 Dec 2024
settling in. Old establishment and toilet paper. These are the things that made us great.
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birds are amazing, living
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
birds are amazing, living poetry but much better.
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Happy is relative unless we
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
Happy is relative unless we're children when it is absolute. Lots of love here.
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (ii)
love is in the details.
Posted on Sun, 15 Dec 2024
love is in the details. Wonderful.
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Ariel has wings, but I'm not
Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2024
Ariel has wings, but I'm not so sure she can play minature golf.
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Wonderful storytelling. The
Posted on Sat, 14 Dec 2024
Wonderful storytelling. The sense of truth lies within.
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wonderfully evocative. A real
Posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2024
wonderfully evocative. A real Christmas treat (although it doesn't have to be Christmas).
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wonderful writing. We do know
Posted on Fri, 13 Dec 2024
wonderful writing. We do know. We do know.
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