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Hanging Out

Posted on 10/07/2025 by Daniel

Been with a friend all afternoon sitting in the shade on a hot day she drank half a Guinness and I drank an orange and mango juice and Rusty drank water. We talked about the arts, publishing nd had a good laugh about quite a few things and we reminisced about people no longer with…

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I don’t believe in Messages

Posted on 10/07/202509/07/2025 by Daniel

but when I see dictators spring up in every generation I have to say: You are strong when all your children learn to read and write You are strong when every woman can choose to marry the man  she marries You are strong when historians are free to learn and teach in your universities and…

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It Takes Its Toll

Posted on 09/07/2025 by Daniel

I worked with a person for three years and gave the a lot of authority within the magazine only for them to try to play me by lying to me. When I called them out on it they attempted to circumvent my authority and the whole reason my position even exists so I deleted what…

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European Novels

Posted on 08/07/2025 by Daniel

Un the English novel the Count is probably a baronet and he likes being a Baronet, roams the country being mean and a bit of a drunk who finds himself  when he meets ‘her’. In Russia the Count is rich and depressed who thinks the horses he owns have more freedom than he does and…

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Postcolonialism

Posted on 07/07/2025 by Daniel

There can be no doubt that every empire in history as far as we know of them and can define them, was brutal, savage and we can enjoy a good riddance to them all. We can also mark how the modern world is defined by what has gone before but the fact that the western…

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What Is It

Posted on 06/07/2025 by Daniel

that you can allow yourself to be told what to do by one man? That 100,000 men will go to war to kill and to die on the orders of one leader? It is a very odd occurrence that demands discussion of how our animal selves i9nvade and take over reason. Overrides the survival instinct…

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So This is This

Posted on 05/07/2025 by Daniel

There is an inherent tragedy in life to which we all succumb and all experience. To find love and to lose it in death. To find success and lose it in death. To secure hope, privilege, advance, learning, friends and to lose in death. One part of me delights that this miserable, opinionated fantasist called…

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The Last word

Posted on 04/07/2025 by Daniel

I think it was the soap opera Taxi that gave one of the funniest and most pointed moments of contemporary art when the tea, visited an auction and Nude at Daybreak cam onto the stand. It was a cubist woman with a barely discernable half a face and the requisite angular body and Lloyds, playing…

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Being in Love

Posted on 02/07/2025 by Daniel

A touch of skin, the smell of shampoo’d hair – Teeth and toes, nails, soft backs even shadows – The laughter in bed, Just being there – The big rows, little fights, tears and smiles Desolate parting – Endless longing – Every breathing second thinking of him – The passion blind – The passion strong…

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Banking Practice

Posted on 01/07/2025 by Daniel

So I asked for some money to be transferred today to pay a rent charge due in this morning. I put the request through last night and asked them to pay it in 1st July. My mistake. I am so used to asked for payments to be made in banking hours and seeing them paid…

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