Tag: writing

Beyond Glass Town

Sunday 21 April 2024 Eskişehir, Türkiye You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction. You say: “Real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men“. I feel that this also is true, but, dear Sir, is not the real… Continue reading Beyond Glass Town

Child heroes

Thursday 18 April 2023 (continued) Eskişehir, Türkiye “With those children, Winston thought, that wretched woman (Mrs. Parsons) must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means… Continue reading Child heroes

The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets

Eskişehir, Türkiye Thursday 18 April 2024 (continued) I get up in the evenin’And I ain’t got nothin’ to sayI come home in the mornin’I go to bed feelin’ the same wayI ain’t nothin’ but tiredMan, I’m just tired and bored with myselfHey there, baby, I could use just a little help You can’t start a… Continue reading The Penniless Parliament of Threadbare Poets

The Ministry of Story

Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, Scotland 17 April 1976 “I thought of the beautiful cool evening, how I long to be walking in it outside this cell. All of this took place while I sat in the semi-dark reading a book. The thoughts on freedom were only momentary but so powerful that they seem to tear my… Continue reading The Ministry of Story

Voices carry

Eskişehir, Türkiye Tuesday 16 April 2024 Above: A spectrogram (0-5000 Hz) of the sentence “It’s all Greek to me.” spoken by a female voice World Voice Day (WVD) is a worldwide annual event that takes place on 16 April devoted to the celebration of the phenomenon of voice.  The aim is to demonstrate the enormous importance of… Continue reading Voices carry

Rites of passage

Eskişehir, Türkiye Thursday 4 April 2024 “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. From the table drawer he took out a penholder, a bottle of ink, and a thick, quarto-sized blank book with a red back and a marbled cover. It was a peculiarly beautiful book. Its smooth… Continue reading Rites of passage

Across the purple hill

Eskişehir, Türkiye Tuesday 2 April 2024 “A life is full of isolated events, but these events, if they are to form a coherent narrative, require odd pieces of language to link them together, little chips of grammar (mostly adverbs or prepositions) that are hard to define words like ‘therefore’, ‘else’, ‘other’ ‘also’, ‘thereof’, ‘therefore’, ‘instead’,… Continue reading Across the purple hill

Legacy

Eskişehir, Türkiye Thursday 28 March 2024 “Arnold Bennett died last night, which leaves me sadder than I should have supposed. A loveable genuine man, somehow a little awkward in life, well meaning, ponderous, kindly, coarse, knowing he was coarse, dimly floundering and feeling for something else, glutted with success, wounded in his feelings and thick-lipped,… Continue reading Legacy