Category: Wonderings
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Abandoning My Orphans
I always thought throwing out books was sacrilegious. You were supposed to pick them up gently by their worn sleeves and carry them home to roost forever on sleepy shelves. To then shoo them out into the cold, in their tattered jackets? Unfeeling, to abandon an orphan like that. But I recently steeled myself to the task…
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CBT
I’ve been doing CBT for the last month or so. I started out very, very sceptical because to my mind, it’s patching over the problem by teaching you methods to quell your anxieties or the symptoms thereof, rather than actually ‘solving’ them. And to be blunt, it is all common sense. There’s nothing in CBT…
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Books Again
I’m reading Made in America by Bill Bryson. Lord, that man is a researcher. The amount of STUFF he crams into a book is just unbelievable and it’s all intensely interesting, funny and surprising. The book is a wandering ramble through American place names, natural history, inventions, early legal scraps, the relationship with the Old…
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Recent Reads
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmells was a model, flamenco dancer, diarist, bigamist and eroticist. Nin didn’t discover erotica until after she was married, while staying in the house of a friend. His secret collection of naughty French literature gave her a ‘degree in erotic lore’…
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Lana Again
I reviewed Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey for HOWL. When I say reviewed I mean did some words about how much I like it. I am not a music critic, as you shall see. Go look.
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