Monthly Archives: January 2012

Coming Wednesday

_ On Wednesday I’m going to use this blog to upload a nude photograph of myself. Yep, you read that right, a nude photograph. Have I gone mad? Am I so desperate for readers that I’ll do anything to get … Continue reading

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Emotions in Art

In a recent English Literature seminar that I had, we were talking about emotions in fiction and it made me think about just why we like certain things. Why, for example, do we enjoy a story which is really sad? … Continue reading

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A Response to My Last Entry

_ My Mum has given me a few objections to my last entry ‘Friendship’ so I thought I’d address them now. First, she said that I made my family look bad, which I didn’t mean to do, I was just … Continue reading

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Friendship

I was talking with my family just the other day and I was quite surprised to hear them say two things: first, that they don’t like the majority of people and, second, that they wouldn’t be friends with people who … Continue reading

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Dalfino Madrigal Keyte’s SoundCloud

_ I think I may have mentioned once before that my friend Dalfino Madrigal Keyte made his own album called the ‘Record of Matches’ which is inspired by a poetry collection called the ‘Book of Matches’. His album is now … Continue reading

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The Republic by Plato (translated by Desmond Lee)

I imagine that, to most people, The Republic is probably just thought of an old and boring book about philosophy, but this is definitely not the case. Rather than explain his philosophical views about the world in a regular old … Continue reading

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SOPA Sucks

I realise my blog title is awfully critical and that I don’t want my blog to be an awfully critical place, but this SOPA law seems to be to be very bad, so I’m going to have to make an … Continue reading

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My Theories on the Series 2 Sherlock Finale (Contains Spoilers)

I’ve just seen the last episode of Sherlock series 2 and have a few theories; I thought I’d better write them down while it’s all still fresh in my mind! I may very well be a little late to the … Continue reading

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The Nicest Video Ever

Yesterday I was happily reminded of a video I’d seen online some time ago. This is it, and it’s by far the nicest video I’ve ever seen. Since it’s of such high quality, I couldn’t really resist sharing it here … Continue reading

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Nature

Here’s an extra post for today. I’m currently in a Creative Writing lecture and five minutes of the sound of a rainforest (or something like that) was played and we were told to write about what we hear. It’s not … Continue reading

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