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more "Freedom"
The novel is absolutely wonderful; rich and lavish in its emotional analysis and thoughtful in its treatment of modern America. This is the only bit so far that's made me raise my eyebrows a little. Politico Walter and his young assistant Lalitha are driving along ( Read more... ) -
Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
This is the first paragraph of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom:
"The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally - he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now - but the urban gentry of Ramsey Hill were not so loyal to their city as not to read the New York Times. According to a long and very ( Read more... ) -
from "City Boy"
"Our happiness together remains one of my most vivid and fructifying memories; when we are young and literary, we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now. I always placed a high value on friendship, but even I had no way of guessing back then that it was more ( Read more... ) -
AV/Politics
Hey, UK, would you like a fairer voting system?"
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"No, no, thanks, we're fine as we are. Change is scaryWell done Britain ( Read more... ) -
Short story.
Here is a little story I've written for an informal competition my friends and I are having. I still don't have any ideas for a title, so suggestions are welcome!
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I Can Change.
I can ( Read more... ) -
Elspeth.
The other day I met a girl named Elspeth. It was cool.
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Lay Miz.
Today is my parents' ruby wedding anniversary, and for the occasion we all (mum, dad, younger brother Steven and I) all went down to London to stay overnight in a hotel and watch Les Miserables in the West End.
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Important To Know: I fucking LOVE Les Mis.
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Half-term approaches!
Woo hoo! You know how in the old days people would slap each other with gloves as some kind of invitation to a duel?* Well, this half-term has felt like being slapped repeatedly with a glove, over and over again. Not always in a bad way, but enough to make me crave two weeks off (we get 2 weeks for this half-term, longer holidays is a perk of ( Read more... ) -
Fags.
So I've decided to quit smoking ( Read more... )