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Archive for July, 2006

On Shakespeare.

The first problem you have with the appreciation of literature is neatly encapsulated in a scene from a David Lodge novel. Where an English professor specialising in Jane Austen ‘proves’ that during the blandest and most innocuous exchange two people could possibly share, the female character (I believe it was Fanny, of all people) had [...]

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Yesterday you and B reached your 4th wedding anniversary. So you are remembering your actual wedding…
8.30am saw me sitting in the hairdresser’s, accompanied by Mum, Best Friend and a camera. Mum, Dad, Brother and Grandad had arrived a few days before causing me give up the thorough spring clean of the flat in favour of [...]

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On secrets and lies.

You are making an utterly pants job of not telling people you are pregnant.
There you are with Old School Friend and the first thing you do after meeting and kissing is practically turn white and nearly fling the offered champagne across Regent’s Park. Likewise the goats’ cheese. And it wasn’t until half way through the story about you [...]

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