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30 Dec 2016

On the Peacock and the Gamekeeper

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Peacock by go-bananas on deviantart.com The literary imagination of the nineteenth-century was fascinated by the symbol of the peaco...
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28 Dec 2016

In Praise of an Unnatural Death (and in the Hope of Dying on the Scaffold)

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Unnatural Death by Ashkan Honarvar (2015) Ultimately, to have done with the judgement of God means refusing to accept what ...
25 Dec 2016

Cold Turkey and TV (How We're Betrayed by Tradition)

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy (looking as bored then as I feel today) There are many traditions associated with Christmas; ...
23 Dec 2016

All I Want for Christmas ...

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All I Want for Christmas Is You Ever since a young child, I have, as a rule, instinctively felt myself in visceral oppositio...
20 Dec 2016

Infrathin Erotica (Fragment from an Illicit Lover's Discourse)

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  The blissful feeling that the Illicit Lover experiences when he sits in a seat on the Tube vacated by a young woman an...
19 Dec 2016

Carri on Sex Pistols (Comments on the Case of Joe Corré and His Bonfire of Punk)

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Artwork by Jamie Reid  (Virgin 1979) I've been asked to comment on Joe Corré's decision to burn his valuable collection of ...
17 Dec 2016

City All Over (Notes on Urban Wildlife)

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Some creatures have always been happy living synanthropically alongside man and have long been residents of the city. Rats, pigeo...
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15 Dec 2016

Evening All: Reflections on the Case of PC Semple

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Every now and then a story comes on the news that leaves me spluttering in the breakfast bowl; not so much in moral outrage, as amused...
14 Dec 2016

The (Displaced) Task of the Translator 3: On the Limits of Zeitgeistiness - A Post by Simon Solomon

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Simon Solomon (aka Dr Simon Thomas) As the late English poet and essayist Geoffrey Hill insisted, in railing against th...

The (Displaced) Task of the Translator 2: Microdramas of Displacement - A Post by Simon Solomon

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Dede Koswara, aka the Human Tree Man Image Source: thechive.com While we may be culturally instructed by Kenneth Goldsmith's un...
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