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The original is here . Recently I watched Computer Chess which is similar to Berberian Sound Studio in many ways – an unusual setting and milieu usually ignored by filmmakers, and a main character’s…
This review is one which has come to occupy a certain place in my mental landscape of being a writer. A review reflects many things, and one is the circumstances of…
Here I tried to capture something of the spirit of those months and years which have yet to be satisfactorily named. At the time, “credit crunch” was all the rage,…
This was written on a phone, a Nokia of some kind. There are two companion parables. Changing the sex of the character from sentence to sentence seemed profound at the…
For some years now, I have been contemplating a philosophy of silence. Is that my most pretentious sentence yet? Possibly. Silence is fascinating. When we are most at ease with…
I haven’t posted in a few days, because I was in Glasgow – at a Hackathon . You can read my initial reflections at that link.
My one appearance in the Spectator, and my one published piece of visual art criticism. A lot of “slightly” here, and “rather.” I don’t read the Spectator much anymore; its prose style…
This is a pretty good example of the capsule reviews I started out contributing to the TLS. Capsule reviews impose a certain discipline on the reviewer – longer word counts…
