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Posted on September 26, 2016July 12, 2017

A visual survey of the last taboo(s)

In a sensation-hungry media, exposing The Last Taboo is something of a recurrent theme. Indeed, the evident fallacy in repeatedly identifying “last” taboos does not seemingly stop  journalists and subeditors reaching…

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Posted on June 12, 2016June 12, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 5 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010

Part 1 here.  Part 2 here Part 3 here . Part 4 here Full story here. This story is fairly typical of my rushed efforts of  a rather threadbare narrative and characterisation all around…

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Posted on June 12, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 4 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010

Part 1 here.  Part 2 here Part 3 here . Full story here     Scene 9. A scene of explication With enormous fanfare, the Creative Online project, or CREON, was launched to…

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Posted on May 4, 2016May 4, 2016

Inherit the Earth (part 2) Nthposition.com, December 2004

Part 1 is here Ten years from now Malcolm and Linda and the ones with no names, the old folk whom they picked up on the road, went down into…

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Posted on May 3, 2016

Our selves, alone. Extract 5 (and final) Nthposition.com 2010

This is the end of the story. Not too sure about the “reveal” at this distance. However of all the stories I have reposted here this is the one I…

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Posted on May 1, 2016

Our Selves, Alone. Extract 3. From Nthposition, 2010

Full story here. and Extract 1 here and Our Selves, Alone. Extract 2. Nthposition, 2010   “Dr Gallagher now my now self would be grateful to your now self if my now self could…

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Posted on April 27, 2016

Our Selves, Alone. Extract 2. Nthposition, 2010

Full story here. and Extract 1 here. I recall my efforts to construct a linguistic expression of the contention that our selves are simply bundles of momentary, instantaneous responses, rather than something…

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Posted on April 26, 2016

Our Selves, Alone. (extract 1) Nthposition. 2010

Rather than pasting great dobs of text here of my various stories, I have decided to either post previews with the full text elsewhere, or dividing them into parts, as…

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