'There was no one in the once-a-monastery-now-a-restaurant but us. A young couple came in with their baby, only to leave after a hushed conversation with the waiters.'

Words are a re-ordering of dream, an attempt to drag down the superconscious into the good old conscious, where theatres…

Words are a re-ordering of dream, an attempt to drag down the superconscious into the good old conscious, where theatres are and publishing happens. Words are a re-ordering of dream, an attempt to drag down the superconscious into the good old conscious, where theatres are and publishing happens. But too much world-order and the dream-power is lost. I have to stop, dip back down into sleep.

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'Words are a re-ordering of dream, an attempt to drag down the superconscious into the good old conscious, where theatres are and publishing happens.'

A comic squib about domestic angst, which began ‘There’s a nasty niff in the downstairs loo’, developed its own agenda……

A comic squib about domestic angst, which began ‘There’s a nasty niff in the downstairs loo’, developed its own agenda... A comic squib about domestic angst developed its own agenda and finally clinched itself in a line, ‘For they are in the world, and you are not’. The tribute to my late partner which I had struggled for two years to write. It had written itself. Or had it?

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'A comic squib about domestic angst, which began ‘There’s a nasty niff in the downstairs loo’, developed its own agenda...'

I do believe that, alongside metaphors, allegories and similes, a writer’s life itself is but another literary device to be…

I do believe that, alongside metaphors, allegories and similes, a writer’s life itself is but another literary device to be incorporated into their work. I do believe that, alongside metaphors, allegories and similes, a writer’s life itself is but another literary device to be incorporated into their work, particularly when their own lives start feeling like a cluster of meaningless oxymorons. Difficult? Enormously so.

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'I do believe that, alongside metaphors, allegories and similes, a writer’s life itself is but another literary device to be incorporated into their work.'

Of the origin stories I read the one I liked best was about Jimi Hendrix releasing a pair of parakeets…

Of the origin stories I read the one I liked best was about Jimi Hendrix releasing a pair of parakeets in Carnaby Street. The origin story I liked best was about Jimi Hendrix releasing a pair of parakeets in Carnaby Street. Hendrix spent several months in the city before his death at the age of twenty seven. ‘There’s no place like London’, he said. ‘It’s like a kind of a fairyland.'

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'Of the origin stories I read the one I liked best was about Jimi Hendrix releasing a pair of parakeets in Carnaby Street.'

I was asked to co-translate a doorstep on Joseph Beuys, then a monograph on choreographer Pina Bausch and her innovative…

I was asked to co-translate a doorstep on Joseph Beuys, then a monograph on choreographer Pina Bausch and her innovative dance theatre. Yet still winging it. When I was asked to co-translate a doorstep on Joseph Beuys, then a monograph on choreographer Pina Bausch and her innovative dance theatre, I realised I was dealing with the great and good of the German postwar avant garde. Yet still winging it.

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