Tag: dailyprompt

The problems of expression with exactitude: how to start thinking about Gertrude Stein as a meta-writer [a writer who writes mainly about the nature of writing].

June 13, 2025

Describe your dream chocolate bar. Used as an adjective here, the word ‘dream’ is usually thought to have the equivalent meaning as, to some extent, clearer adjectives like ‘perfect’ or ‘ideal’, but the force of the meaning of the noun persists, which describes an event that occurs entirely within the person, and with the same … More The problems of expression with exactitude: how to start thinking about Gertrude Stein as a meta-writer [a writer who writes mainly about the nature of writing].

I am passionate about the role of reading and the redemption of material life it carries with it. This is a blog on Ocean Vuong (2025) ‘The Emperor of Gladness’

June 12, 2025

‘The linoleum, too, … is blue. So blue you’ll have the feeling  of being swept away because you are, into a current of corridors intentionally too narrow to turn around in’.[1] Queer writers have so long challenged the false universals of heteronormative stability, and perhaps privileged the discourse of sexual interaction as a panacea  for … More I am passionate about the role of reading and the redemption of material life it carries with it. This is a blog on Ocean Vuong (2025) ‘The Emperor of Gladness’

The meaning of notable! What leaves a mark? Who makes that note?

June 9, 2025

When I visited the wonderful John Bellany self-portraiture exhibition at City Art Gallery in Edinburgh on Friday 4th June, there was also another exhibition (on Modern Scottish Art) containing one other Bellany painting, that painting known as Obsession. Photography was banned so I rely on internet photographs to mark or note memories not my own. … More The meaning of notable! What leaves a mark? Who makes that note?

The one thing I cannot live without is art – however raw its raw materials. Uncluttering the classic stage: Lear, a production of The National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre seen 2.30-3.30 p.m. Saturday 7th June 2025.

June 8, 2025

The one thing I cannot live without is theatre – however raw its raw materials. Uncluttering the classic stage: ‘Lear’, a production of The National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre seen 2.30-3.30 p.m. Saturday 7th June 2025. Bcck in the old days at Honley Grammar School, my friend Ann will remember that we … More The one thing I cannot live without is art – however raw its raw materials. Uncluttering the classic stage: Lear, a production of The National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre seen 2.30-3.30 p.m. Saturday 7th June 2025.

Perhaps we all spend ‘the most time’ with ourselves and that rowdy group of conflicting persons’ thoughts. Hence, the need to keep learning!

June 7, 2025

Who do you spend the most time with? Mine is the next train, and I sit here with my skinny cappuccino waiting for it, aware I hate leaving my hubby and doggy behind in Durham. But that’s what it is like to be driven to leave no vacant space that might get filled by experience. … More Perhaps we all spend ‘the most time’ with ourselves and that rowdy group of conflicting persons’ thoughts. Hence, the need to keep learning!

‘The Secret Seven’ fail to catch up on ‘The Little Prince’.

June 4, 2025

‘The Secret Seven’ fail to catch up on ‘The Little Prince’. When I was in primary school, Enid Blyton ruled the world of children’s fiction, yet apart from having a kind of loving fascination for The Island of Adventure (because I liked island books), I had not even a pretend interest in The Famous Five … More ‘The Secret Seven’ fail to catch up on ‘The Little Prince’.

It would be: ‘He tried to notice the underlying things!’ Is this a case in point?: This blog looks at a discovered copy of the 75th anniversary issue of ‘Granta’ from 1964 [Volume 68, No 1233].

June 1, 2025

It would be: ‘He tried to notice the underlying things!’ Is this a case in point: This blog looks at a discovered copy of the 75th anniversary issue of ‘Granta’ from 1964 [Volume 68, No 1233]. In it a poet speaks of another much earlier poet: ‘Going, he carefully left his words behind’. My husband … More It would be: ‘He tried to notice the underlying things!’ Is this a case in point?: This blog looks at a discovered copy of the 75th anniversary issue of ‘Granta’ from 1964 [Volume 68, No 1233].

I don’t think I do know when to ‘unplug’. But I do get to points where I feel I have ‘unplugged’. It happened in Amsterdam. Our Amsterdam experience: an introduction

May 25, 2025

I don’t think I do know when to ‘unplug’. But I do get to points where I feel I have ‘unplugged’. It happened in Amsterdam. Our Amsterdam experience: an introduction You could say our Amsterdam experience was defined in the wake of its progression: the place of one’s status quo existence becoming a mist that rides … More I don’t think I do know when to ‘unplug’. But I do get to points where I feel I have ‘unplugged’. It happened in Amsterdam. Our Amsterdam experience: an introduction

We evaluate both a belonging and the feeling of belonging with or by principles of rightful exclusion for ownership and membership thereof respectively.

May 24, 2025

What personal belongings do you hold most dear? In a blog on  novel called, and in some degree about, the wider implications of what we mean by Theft (see it at this link), I found myself considering associations with two different kinds of entitlement: the entitlement of ownership of things (and sometimes people) one calls … More We evaluate both a belonging and the feeling of belonging with or by principles of rightful exclusion for ownership and membership thereof respectively.

Communication between the diverse: the benefits of modelling conflictual consensus.

May 7, 2025

What do you do to be involved in the community? In an article by the American Public Power  Association [APPA], called ‘Dissecting the True Meaning of Community’, some things are said about unpacking the meaning of the word  ‘community’ from its origins as a word. I have no knowledge of the real politics of APPA, though … More Communication between the diverse: the benefits of modelling conflictual consensus.

I think it must be being a film critic for I surely could not do a worst job than some! LOL. Malcolm Bradshaw, the film critic for ‘The Guardian’, I am told, says he thinks ‘Sinners’ would be a better film without the ‘supernatural element’. Yet this is the first film ever to understand the beauty of the mythology of the vampire in a way that matters. This blog tries to say why.

May 6, 2025

I think it must be being a film critic for I surely could not do a worst job than some! LOL. Or perhaps a comedian! Have you heard the one about the old man who in his youth survived a vampire attack that turned his friend into a vampire? One night in a bar, his … More I think it must be being a film critic for I surely could not do a worst job than some! LOL. Malcolm Bradshaw, the film critic for ‘The Guardian’, I am told, says he thinks ‘Sinners’ would be a better film without the ‘supernatural element’. Yet this is the first film ever to understand the beauty of the mythology of the vampire in a way that matters. This blog tries to say why.

Freedom has little use for those who prefer to be bound without choosing and committing to the bonds that matter.

May 5, 2025

My convoluted title is meant to avoid the sense that bonds are unimportant and contrary to what freedom is. Freedom and bondage are only binary contraries either to: Freedom is oft best experienced and compromised in relationships. The death of love of any kind is usually the accompaniment of the plea of one person on … More Freedom has little use for those who prefer to be bound without choosing and committing to the bonds that matter.