Currently Reading…
…November Tatler, The Private Patient by PD James, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler and just finished listening to Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie. Continue reading Currently Reading…
Month: November 2009
I’m in the chokey but this is still…
…the best 6 minutes you will ever spend on YouTube… EvolutionofDance Continue reading I’m in the chokey but this is still…
Currently Reading…
…A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, November Tatler, 1001 books and online entries about Bakhtin – but strangely not yet too much of his own words. But then tomorrow is another day…I think that was dialogic – bloody better be or I have Bakhtin ass about face. Bon nuit Continue reading Currently Reading…
The Criminal Mind
I attended the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum event last week, pictures and information of which can be found here. It was very interesting and although the session did not dwell on it, there was reference to the Victorian idea of a criminal mind, that criminals are a distinctive subset of society; that somewhere they carry the mark of Cain. I discovered tonight that I definitely do not have a criminal mind. I received a call from a PC Reid asking me to come along to a police station to discuss a complaint made against me. Talk about surreal … Continue reading The Criminal Mind
Dialogic and the King
Ergh…but in a good way. I have a 3,000 word life writing assignment to finish by Friday 04 December, and a further 3,000 words in which I cleverly illustrate my learning of theory to a short story also due to be submitted by Friday 04 December. Through my mentoring with Sam Kelly I have finally chosen the writing project I am going to focus on and I should have something on paper by my next mentoring session this Thursday. In closing, the course coupled with all I have to do to earn the barest living has resulted in a review … Continue reading Dialogic and the King
Writing the Long Way Around 