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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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August 07, 2007 08:31 PM EDT --
Days of Greenhithe
In late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the now no longer existent Merchant Navy College in Greenhithe, Kent, which had merged with the Thames . . .
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August 02, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
The Siege of La Rochelle
If my memory serves me faithfully, some weeks after returning from the Ocean Youth Club trip to the Baltic in the summer of 1975, I sailed with the RNR to La Rochelle on the Atlantic . . .
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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