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| you can hire the A-Team | October 3, 2008 | My mother and sister kindly presented me with this book this morning. They found it on the marked down table at the newsagent. It’s written from a cat’s point of view with chapters including “Too fat to groom”, “My water dish is a stagnant pond”, “Climbing the curtains because they’re there” and “I crave a […] |
| the promise of ill-formed opinion fulfilled | September 26, 2008 | Time travel has been a recurring theme for me over the last few weeks in literature, film and television. I’m sure there are many people who have made careful study of this field of inquiry, but my blog description does promise “ill-formed opinion” so I hate to disappoint. Doctor Who of course has been a […] |
| the promise of ill-formed opinion fulfilled | Time travel has been a recurring theme for me over the last few weeks in literature, film and television. I’m sure there are many people who have made careful study of this field of inquiry, but my blog description does promise “ill-formed opinion” so I hate to disappoint. Doctor Who of course has been a […] |
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| a little smidgen of Christmas | September 15, 2008 | It’s so exciting getting books in the post. Two arrived today, waiting for me on the kitchen table when I walked in after work. It’s like a little smidgen of Christmas or birthday on an otherwise ordinary Monday (even though I knew they were coming and had obviously ordered and paid for them myself) Hardt […] |
| a little smidgen of Christmas | It’s so exciting getting books in the post. Two arrived today, waiting for me on the kitchen table when I walked in after work. It’s like a little smidgen of Christmas or birthday on an otherwise ordinary Monday (even though I knew they were coming and had obviously ordered and paid for them myself) Hardt […] |
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| The lyricism of marginality | August 13, 2008 | Well we finally made it to the end of Discipline and Punish this morning. We worked out that we took 10 months as we officially began around October last year. Although it must also be noted that the beginning of this year saw 3 or 4 months when we got nothing done at all because […] |
| The lyricism of marginality | Well we finally made it to the end of Discipline and Punish this morning. We worked out that we took 10 months as we officially began around October last year. Although it must also be noted that the beginning of this year saw 3 or 4 months when we got nothing done at all because […] |
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| The Great Bookclub Poetry Experiment – and jokes about Gerard Manley Hopkins | August 6, 2008 | The Great Bookclub Poetry Experiment was deemed a great success by all those in attendance (Jan and Anne H – we missed you!). Jan had kindly sent along the comic relief in the form of a Tasmanian teatowel with a lovely little ditty about beer, “The bitter end”. Jinx injected just the right amount of […] |
| The Great Bookclub Poetry Experiment – and jokes about Gerard Manley Hopkins | The Great Bookclub Poetry Experiment was deemed a great success by all those in attendance (Jan and Anne H – we missed you!). Jan had kindly sent along the comic relief in the form of a Tasmanian teatowel with a lovely little ditty about beer, “The bitter end”. Jinx injected just the right amount of […] |
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| Solzhenitsyn | August 4, 2008 | I see a great Russian writer has died. Maybe I should now finally make myself read Ivan Denisovich. (Why did the ABC website post this under “Entertainment” I wonder?) On a very shallow note, whenever I hear the phrase “Russian writer” I always think of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine made a fool of herself, […] |