Tag: life
member name: Carl Halling
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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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December 04, 2006 07:47 AM EST --
I underwent my final RNR voyage, destination Ostend in Belgium, towards the end of the summer of 1977. My best RNR oppo Colin was sadly not onboard, but thankfully a new close seafaring friend was. His . . .
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December 28, 2006 05:36 PM EST --
The following piece began its life as, and consists in its present form as amalgam of, two almost identical unfinished and somewhat jejune pieces of poetry composed possibly around 1980, and while I have . . .
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February 22, 2007 04:37 AM EST --
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December 04, 2006 07:37 AM EST --
Introduction
In the summer of 1979, following a year at London's prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, my career as an acting student came to an end. I don't recall exactly how I felt . . .
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December 11, 2006 07:49 PM EST --
Adapted (edited, reassembled) from a letter typed to a friend in about 1990, and concerning a series of accidents I suffered at the time, but never finished, and never sent, and recovered only recently, . . .
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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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November 03, 2006 03:08 PM EST --
Taken verbatim from a projected novel written sometime in the mid to late 1980s, but then largely destroyed:
1) Scene from a Paris Brasserie
I took the Metro
to Montparnasse-Bienvenue,
where I slowly . . .
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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 07:20 AM EST --
1976 was the year in which I came increasingly under the sway of the fifties, a decade far less congenial to my rarified tastes than the Bright Young 1920s, and yet I was thirsty for change. Thence, inchmeal . . .
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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 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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December 11, 2006 03:26 PM EST --
Adapted verbatim (edited, rearranged) from an essay penned sometime as I recall in the spring or summer of 1999.
I love...
not just those
I knew back then...
but those...
who were young...
back then... . . .
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December 06, 2006 08:03 PM EST --
Sporadically throughout the 1980s, I catalogued my existence via notebooks, cassette tapes, odd scraps of paper and so on, and recently, I decided to transform some of these rough diary entries into literary . . .
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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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