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On the pish…or should that be lish?

Writing The Long Way Around

I am killing time until a bottle of wine is cold enough to drink and now that I realise my life has boiled all the way down to waiting on inanimate objects for fulfilment, I am going to have a gin and tonic while I wait in a bid to wrest back a little control. Aaah…who’s your daddy now? We have been looking at the editing process in the practical sessions of our Theory and Authorship class over the past three weeks. As a module, Theory and Authorship looks at the relationship between author, text and reader and as the … Continue reading On the pish…or should that be lish?

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Psychogeographing

Writing The Long Way Around

I still haven’t typed up my psychogeograhpy field trip notes – on my rather large to-do list. I did find this photo from the trip – it’s the real Stone of Destiny. And yes. Someone has trained their dog to crap on it. Nice. Continue reading Psychogeographing

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J.D Salinger

Writing The Long Way Around

I think everyone reads J.D Salinger not because they discovered his work but because Catcher in the Rye is force- fed to us all around the age of 14/15.  I have to be honest; I don’t remember being blown away by this book. I am prepared to be denounced as illiterate and uneducated, tutted at for being the philistine among you but if I remember correctly, I found it a rather boring book. I think I still have my school copy in the attic and based on my recent bout of learning and discovery, and owing to his passing I … Continue reading J.D Salinger