Tag Archives: love

Notebook 11.02

By TF | Published: February 11, 2010
It looked like she was still staring at him, but he couldn’t tell; the pub was dark, the art deco lamps emitting a dull, sickly glow that seemed to hang in the air like a fog. The manager had probably made the place like this, he thought, to attract the kind of crowd that was [...]
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Get another one

By TF | Published: January 28, 2010
“Well, is that right? Television isn’t real life, sweetie. Neither are the movies. Believe you me, you know nothing about love. You won’t learn nothing about the real world from there. All that stuff you see on TV is make-believe. Your Aunty Vanessa? Good God. She doesn’t know much about anything let alone love. Kaycee, [...]
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The greatest humiliation of his life

By TF | Published: November 4, 2009
“Undoubtedly Dante himself had envisioned this meeting differently. Nothing in the preceding pages indicates that the greatest humiliation of his life awaits him here.” By Theophil Spoerri, taken from ‘The Meeting in a Dream’, one of Jorge Luis Borges’s Dantesque Essays. Purgatorio: Canto XXX When the Septentrion of the highest heaven   (Which never either [...]
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Mangan’s sister

By TF | Published: October 20, 2009
When the short days of winter came dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung [...]
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Public Library 23.8

By TF | Published: August 23, 2009
First and, as far as we’re concerned, foremost, our More or Less fiction series. Will the internet create a universal writing system? OUP has its say. How can uncontacted Amazonian tribes be wiped out if they don’t exist? Via The Guardian. Amir Sulaiman’s ‘Love Song’. Not a song about love - love as song. A song that [...]
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