Archive for January, 2007

Learning to Write XIX

All fictional characters are not drawn in the same way. The writer has to decide if the person he is about to represent is to be a full character or merely an embodied trait. The difference between these two presentations lies in the way in which the reader responds to them.
Everyone responds differently to a [...]



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Like a Night Club in the morning, you’re the bitter end.
Like a recently disinfected shit-house, you’re clean round the bend
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from Twat by John Cooper Clarke

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“Americans have different ways of saying things. They say elevator, we say lift. . . they say President, we say stupid psychopathic git. . . .”

British comedian Alexi Sayle

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A Poem

As the President Spoke
Someone hung dolls from the chandelier and
a nun fingered an abacus in her mind.
Prisoners giggled in their cells, watching
a pederast pass cigarettes between the bars.
Grandpa wiped his glasses with a dishrag while
a sophomore solved equations with a cheese-slicer.
An amputee said he “didn’t see it coming,” and
a mother of three said, “Who uses [...]






About Writing:

Many are desirous of learning to draw, and are very fond of it, who are, notwithstanding, void of a proper disposition for it. This may be known by their want of perseverance . . . never finishing, or shadowing. Leonardo da Vinci

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