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I will start this story in the present: some of my friends still call me ‘Mr Ben’. It has served me well as a pseudonym for approximately nine years, having first come into use when I felt in need of an internet alias. Many embrace the online world for its anonymity, and this certainly is [...]
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In Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Humpty Dumpty and Alice discuss the poem, ‘Jabberwocky’. The egg explains the word “slithy”: “Well, ‘slithy‘ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau – there are two meanings packed up into one word.” Both before and after [...]
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I would like to invite you – my friends, my readers, my favourite writers, and people I have never yet encountered – to tell me your autobiographical memories.
When Ramesh gave up recorded music for Lent, I started to think a little bit about how we interact with sound. Then, this week, two chance conversations sparked further thoughts. The first conversation was about MP3 players. Somebody was saying that he could not relate to the urge to listen to music when out and [...]
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