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Writing, reading, running.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
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Yup
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Which is pretty close to what I said.
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I mean, the UK has deep and manifest problems, and I'm as republican (with a small 'r') as they come and would welcome the abolition of the monarchy - but I feel like we're not the ones most obviously becoming 'not a country, but a punchline' right now.
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Thatcher, notsomuch.
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Ah, mortality: recent trend, started on tiktok, I hear.
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Also: the urge to explain why you're explaining why you're explaining why. And so on.
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Crivens
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And a hard boiled egg
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Petri...fied to think of how many mentions there will be of a particular word...
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If it weren't for the pesky spherical planet...
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It says English novel not novel in English, so it can be true even if Melville is better.
I've read Middemarch twice but only got partway through MD, not because I didn't love it - I did - life got in the way. I will read it this summer I think. I collect editions of MD - some nice ones out there
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I mean, it's OK...
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*to my mine
*that, not thar
My autocorrect is definitely a sociopath.
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I don't think Starmer or Reeves are sociopaths, and I expect most other people don't either. Plenty to criticise them for without thar hyperbole, which I think is potentially dangerous when there are, to arrange mind, honest to goodness sociopaths in political charge elsewhere right now.
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Bad take.
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Hmm. Steven Pinker holds some problematic views.
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If you document a protest which is 99.9% peaceful and 0.1% violent and you only show the violence that isn’t journalism it’s propaganda.
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There's an introduction somewhere in Pratchett - maybe the Discworld Companion, I can't remember - which discusses the translation process: idiom, cultural specificity and whatnot. It explores alternatives to "I could murder a curry", I seem to remember.
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Happy day?