Tag: education
member name: Carl Halling
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February 05, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
In late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the Merchant Navy College (in Greenhithe, Kent), the latter, no longer existent, having merged with the Thames Nautical Training . . .
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January 26, 2007 10:55 AM EST --
Introduction
The ensuing piece was fashioned using my usual methods, which I have described in scrupulous detail elsewhere. It is based on notes I recently unearthed, and almost certainly dating from . . .
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January 06, 2007 11:53 AM EST --
1. Prelude
The following piece has been adapted from a page of diary notes or unfinished and unsent letter dating from pretty well exactly twenty years ago, which is to say Christmastime 1986, and composed . . .
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January 06, 2007 12:13 PM EST --
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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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February 22, 2007 04:37 AM EST --
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November 14, 2007 10:07 AM EST --
Introduction
“A Final Distant Clarion Cry” consists of diverse unrelated writings which I painstakingly knitted together to make a suitably grand finale to my as yet untitled experiment . . .
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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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November 03, 2006 03:29 PM EST --
Extracted from an essay penned at Westfield College, NW3 in the early 1980s
Whereas Classical literature
leans towards restraint, objectivity,
Romantic literature
tends towards excess,
subjectivity and . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:06 PM EST --
The following is an account concocted as accurately as possible, given that I was looking back at some three and a half decades ago, of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s, . . .
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November 04, 2006 09:11 PM EST --
By any standards, Pangbourne College was a deeply Christian school, with regular Divinity classes, daily prayers, and compulsory chapel on Sunday morning. Moreover while at college I was baptised and confirmed . . .
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December 04, 2006 07:33 AM EST --
77 was a darker year than its immediate predecessors as I see it, it having been marked by the ascendancy of Punk, a musical and cultural movement which perhaps somewhat hampered Rock's uneven progress . . .
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December 04, 2006 01:05 PM EST --
In early 1990, I lost my position as a teacher of English as a foreign language in an Oxford Street language school where I spent almost two years, the concluding two of a decade somewhat redolent of the . . .
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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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December 11, 2006 03:39 PM EST --
Introduction
Following my initial triumph as an actor in the winter of 1980 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Bristol Old Vic, which moved to the London Old Vic in the summer, I accepted . . .
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November 30, 2006 08:12 PM EST --
1975, my second and last year as a dandy in the land of blue denim was one of the most eventful and felicitous years of my late teens and early twenties. It was the year I went back to school, which is . . .
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