Category: Wonderings
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Multiple Meaningfulnesses
Interesting – the three most basic classes of discourse: Locutionary describes the literal words you say Illocutionary describes the effect you intended those words to have Perlocutionary describes the actual effect they had Anything you say has multiple meaningfulnesses. Not meanings, although it has multiples of those too. MEANINGFULNESSES. Which is why it is possible to discover…
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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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