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I like well modulated grammar. I appreciate the clarity and accuracy that comes from applying the rules. I also enjoy seeing those rules creatively and consciously broken. Language lives; usage comes and goes and I embrace innovation. But (and, yes, these days it is fine to start a sentence with “but”), there are some things [...]
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May 2010, Alnmouth beach, UK The emptied cover of a book has been brought in on the tide and left on the beach. This is all that is left after the ocean has digested it, page by page. As I look at this, I realise that there is really only one right way to read [...]
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Blame three things for this post and all that follow it in a similar vein. Firstly, I have been following a series of posts on this | liminality where Barbara has been meditating on 26 seashells given to her by a friend and posting on each of them in turn; weaving something of her present [...]
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Reflecting on the last year of creativity after having quit my full time job in order to pursue some creative stuff that had become too lively to be confined to evenings and weekends, I have learned a few lessons: 1. It Takes Longer Than You Think Firstly, until I tried to give myself over to [...]
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