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Category: Think

• Efficiency! Organisation! Mutation! Salvation!

  How do you know what you want? How do you know when you’ve got it? Where does abstract desire meet with concrete life-processes? Jonathan Lister has some strange Ideas: I thought I’d try them out…

  31 July 2009 | 1 Comment | Read More

• The A-Z of Contempt

  It was brought to my attention on Sunday that the word “contempt” has no active verb. I cannot ‘contempt you’, I can only ‘hold you in contempt’, find you ‘contemptible’ and so forth. As an exercise, my first A-Z:
  A is for abhor
  B is for besmirch
  C is for condemn
  D is for disdain
  E is for execrate
  F is [...]

  17 February 2009 | 4 Comments | Read More

• Head

  I’ve been experiencing a strange sensation recently. I would have thought no more of it, since it is a gentle, unobtrusive sensation; yet through repetition it demands my consideration. I’m not sure I can describe it effectively, but I shall try. For my own peace of mind.
  It comes on unexpectedly, often during an act of [...]

  29 December 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More

• Mouse

  Oh! Tiny little mouse! What a happy little mouse! This morning a telltale wave to the edge of my bread bloomer! little gnawmarks in my lovely butter! but what choice does poor little mouse have? This isn’t a housemouse, and as such I approve.
  But I will still kill you, little mouse. In as fragrant a [...]

  5 March 2008 | Leave a Comment? | Read More