Tag: autobiography
member name: Carl Halling
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August 03, 2007 09:35 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Genesis of a Gentleman", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, is an account conceived as accurately as possible of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in . . .
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August 17, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
A Westfield Narrative 1
"Ice Spoke of the Spells of Calm" is the second in a four-part series of writings inspired by my time at Westfield College. It has been fashioned out of modified versions . . .
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July 27, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
Introduction
This third story in a series of seventies-themed pieces was forged in February-March 2006 from scribblings committed to a notebook in 1978-'79, and concerning events that took place in . . .
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May 07, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
Introduction 1
The two “tales” that follow have been compiled using my usual creative methods exhaustively described elsewhere. They serve to provide a stark contrast between my state of being . . .
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August 12, 2007 03:13 PM EDT --
Introduction
The following short story, the last in a series of pieces based on my sixties boyhood in west London, is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled . . .
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September 01, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Of All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen" debuted at the Blogster.com website on the 25th January 2007. It consisted of an introduction, the main body of the work, formerly untitled but . . .
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July 07, 2009 02:08 PM EDT --
Chapter One: The Gambolling Baby Boomer
Birth of a Rock and Roll Child
I was born Friday 7 October 1955 at the tail end of West London's Goldhawk Road and my first home . . .
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August 24, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
Introduction
"The Twilight of an Actor" existed initially as nothing more than "Such a Short Space of Time", published at the Blogster.com website on the 19th of February 2006. However, . . .
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August 28, 2007 01:31 PM EDT --
A Surrey Idyll
1975 was the year I went back to school, or rather, Brooklands, a technical college secreted within the semi-rural beauty of Weybridge in the furthermost reaches of suburban south west . . .
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January 05, 2008 06:35 AM EST --
Introduction
"Those Gambolling Baby Boomers", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, tells how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s after leaving Pangbourne . . .
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December 08, 2007 01:21 PM EST --
Introduction:
These two pieces set the scene for the entire work to follow, a kind of experiment in memoir writing with a spiritual core. Both deal with my childhood in London in the 1960s. The first . . .
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March 12, 2009 09:07 AM EDT --
Sad Loves of a Seafaring Man
In late summer 1973 the minesweeper HMS Thames set out for Bordeaux in Gironde in the south west of France. It was my first voyage as an Ordinary Deckhand with the RNR . . .
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March 13, 2009 10:06 AM EDT --
Those Landmark Years
For two years I'd slavishly followed those artists who'd either predated Modernism or been part of its banquet years and beyond but in '76 a new decade, that of Brando, . . .
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December 11, 2006 03:17 PM EST --
Adapted verbatim from a short story about a childhood friend from where I used to live in Chiswick close by to Acton Green, and penned in about 1975, or '76 according to how I saw things looking back . . .
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August 27, 2007 06:47 AM EDT --
Introduction
"Shreds of Nothingness" centres on my brief stay at Homerton, a teaching training college contained within the University of Cambridge, with its campus at Hills Road just outside . . .
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January 30, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
Introduction
"The Summer of Fittleton" consists of two previously published pieces in slightly modified form, these being "My Future Positively Glittered", now divided into two . . .
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January 21, 2008 04:47 AM EST --
Introduction
An early draft of "The Sweetness of Wrens" was published as "A Dandy in the Land of Blue Denim 2" at Blogster.com on the 21st of April 2006, since which time it's . . .
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March 10, 2008 04:06 PM EDT --
Introduction
"Gone the Way of Cain" consists of pieces from formerly published writings:
"First Night of the Dream" and "The End of the Century Young" were taken from . . .
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December 05, 2007 10:20 AM EST --
Introduction
An initial draft of "Gilded Youth at the Guildhall School" was published at the Blogster.com website on the 1st of July 2006, since which time it's undergone considerable . . .
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March 11, 2009 08:29 AM EDT --
Birth of a Rock'n'Roll Child
I was born Friday 7 October 1955 at the tail end of West London's Goldhawk Road and my first home was in Bulmer Place near Notting Hill Gate.
My brother was . . .
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