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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
I like the metaphor of making.
Making sense
Making love
Make believe
Makeup
Making friends
Making enemies
Making mincemeat.
These are dead metaphors now, but if we view them literally they all suggest the idea of invention or transformation.
When we make sense, we create something new out of what is there - a text is nothing until we ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The only thing I'm finding boring about Big Brother as it begins its ninth full series is the debate about whether or not it's boring.
As I read Cilla Black's thoughts in the Metro this week and recognise echoes from elsewhere, I think of that other dull debate that surfaces every ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Although delivering a narrative in the present tense is by no means a modern technique, its popularity seems to be growing among contemporary novelists.
Many modern novelists shift between the past and present tense to distinguish between the multiple narratives they are presenting. In Justin Cartwright’s The Promise of Happiness, the ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
There is a tendency, in live poetry, for the performers to talk in between poems, explaining the background behind the piece they are about to read. This seems reasonable enough. After all, a performer needs to engage with his audience – it would seem strange if a poet just stood ...
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Autobiographical memory has been defined in various ways in the field of psychology, but the basic concept is simple: it is a subjective, constructive account of the past based on personal memory.
I became interested in autobiographical memory when I started asking myself how auto/biographers might solve the problem of chronology: ...
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