Author: Arch Copy
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The Importance of Rituals
I’ve come to realise that I need my rituals. The stupid, inconsequential little passings of time that add up to a life and a personality. Filling in my five-year question-a-day diary. Slow writing. Browsing a thesaurus. Making lists. Crunching up words I like and putting them back together for fun. Without these things I’m just a brain driving a body.…
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Truthers
And so it was, in the first pale hours of a year just barely opening its eyes, that minds were altered and perspectives surgically skewed. Seismic, not the gradual drip drip drip that leads to a natural shift. An abrupt CRUNCH of horrible realisation: disillusionment extreme. Not fair, not right, not just – not anything. Truth. Whether you can bear…
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Rekindling an Old Flame
Well hey – look at this! That’s right. It’s quite a lot weird, but I’m back to blogging for hibu – I mean Yell – seven months after promising to never darken their doorway again. As someone who often writes an essay on a subject they’ve randomly Googled, this is a very useful place for…
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Honor’s Sketch Book
My daddy made me this out of scrap paper. I was 6 years old and mainly drew pictures of witches, animals and houses with one tree in the front garden, to the right. From that time I was never really without a book to draw and write in. I have so many still with me,…
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Faves From The Guardian Style Guide
The Guardian’s style guide is written how I would write – HAVE written – a style guide. attorney general lc, no hyphen; plural attorney generals (there will be those who tell you it should be “attorneys general” – See berks and wankers) anorexic is not a superlative of thin. Anorexia is an illness. Like schizophrenia,…
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