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I used to like taking
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
I used to like taking pictures (can't get them in focus now) but I think you are right, something about how you have to objectify what you see, to make it fit into the frame, diminishes it. To stand there and soak in the sunset, to ACCEPT it,...
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (8)
I like all the layers in this
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
I like all the layers in this, exploring so many ideas, whether we work to live or live to work, if you can live forever as a virtual mind in an artificial body, if that is the way mankind will colonise space, space debris, loss of resources. I...
Read full commentPosted in What is True?
Enjoyed this so much.
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
Enjoyed this so much.
Read full commentPosted in Conversation of a Tree
I know what it feels like
Posted on Sun, 03 Mar 2019
I know what it feels like when all the voices get too loud and it's like they are battering you, you describe it so well. And then going outside where there are birds which can fly, it's a great contrast, the lightness after the heaviness. Also,...
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (6)
It's sort of like Shirley
Posted on Sat, 02 Mar 2019
It's sort of like Shirley tipped the balance away from money towards humanity
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (3)
Watch out Michael Dobbs!
Posted on Sat, 02 Mar 2019
Watch out Michael Dobbs!
The last line is a great twist in the tale
Read full commentPosted in Scoop
Made me think of a patchwork
Posted on Thu, 28 Feb 2019
Made me think of a patchwork eiderdown made of gauzy mists, black velvet inside caves, shimmering satin clouds, thick embroidery of hedges, like reliving memories as you sew it together with words.
"The way I go is over quilts
Of...
Read full commentPosted in That's Not The Way I Go
I am not sure. The little
Posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2019
I am not sure. The little girl's grandmother is reported saying she wished they had not named him? If the rest of the family feel that also, maybe their wishes should have been put first?
If the boy who did this wanted notoriety, if there...
Read full commentPosted in Isle of Bute.
Heard the voice clearly in
Posted on Tue, 19 Feb 2019
Heard the voice clearly in my head - you wrote the accent so well. You have made a voice that sounds real, joking even as the air runs out
"now", like the whole poem was bringing us to this word and no way out of the dark
Read full commentPosted in A Conversation in Hester Pit. 16 January 1862
"geniuses? Shiny smug beetles
Posted on Wed, 13 Feb 2019
"geniuses? Shiny smug beetles" YES they were!!! Invulnerable, unsquashable, surviving everything. While I was the worm burying myself in the compost quiet of the library hoping no one would notice and send me squirming outside into all the noise...
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