David Kirtley

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216 of my 1,259 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 227 votes

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C S Lewis did include

Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2023

C S Lewis did include Dionysian Greek creatures in his Narnia books, such as Fauns, Centaurs, Dryads, Nymphs and Nyads. They seemed to make up quite a large proportion of the population of Narnia, and they were able to go into hiding during the...

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Posted in Charms Of Dionysus

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Your writing will be a good

Posted on Wed, 22 Feb 2023

Your writing will be a good way to remember this tragedy looking back in future years, and some of the personal tragedies you outline.

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They should have labelled it

Posted on Sun, 19 Feb 2023

They should have labelled it more clearly. However Earl Grey is a pleasant variant from normal tea in my opinion! I am sure it has enabled me to write certain pieces I might not otherwise have written over the years.

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Posted in LOL.

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An awful tragedy! I think we

Posted on Fri, 10 Feb 2023

An awful tragedy! I think we knew the final figures were going to be a lot higher given that they are just counting the bodies. When we see the pictures and hear the detailed stories it brings the cruelty of this disaster closer to us. The...

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Posted in Negative Feedback From eBay.

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Could this be the future? Can

Posted on Tue, 07 Feb 2023

Could this be the future? Can we construct a virtual or everlasting heaven? Great writing, characters remembering and re-experiencing life, and maybe going to heaven?

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Posted in The Edge of Heaven

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I do also think this is a

Posted on Sun, 08 Jan 2023

I do also think this is a great piece, very melancholic, and also very real. A very natural style, with humour and sadness!

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Posted in Why Does It Always Rain In Graveyards?

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This really was a good piece.

Posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2023

This really was a good piece. You really manage to show the negative feeling of the funeral and the low mood of the narrator perfectly. You get the feeling that his life and good memories are very much in the past and gone.

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Posted in end of the pier

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Nice poem! It certainly

Posted on Tue, 24 Jan 2023

Nice poem! It certainly paints the scene. This come from a scene in a romantic film with Tom Hanks in it does it not? It rings a bell, but it is a while since I saw it. I like the idea of repainting a scene from a good film!

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Posted in A View of the Hudson

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You make a very imortant

Posted on Fri, 13 Jan 2023

You make a very imortant point here Luigi, that the good guys do not always win, even now in the Post 1945 world. It is important that we all realise that!

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I did enjoy this 'miniature'

Posted on Thu, 29 Dec 2022

I did enjoy this 'miniature' satire of Brexit, but then it occurs to me that the Christmas economy may well dwarf the so called national economy in size. I once used to believe that the elves probably had it right, but nowadays we find that they...

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Posted in In-between Days

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