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The Man Who Drank The Universe
here. It’s a simple low-res file for quicker streaming and easier downloading. Enjoy.NOTE:We weren’t able to fly over to New York in 2004...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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his sun-shade making? its water-snake smell?
II.3 — Sumangala’s Mother {vv. 23-24} So freed! So freed! So thoroughly freed am I — from my pestle, my shameless husband & his...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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the magic little iphone
look! How natty I can post direct from my iPhone. All I need to know now is how to send pictures here. And I notice – excitedly – that...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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cultural heavyweights
I was reading how we all have a basic need to have our emotions regulated. Ideally, by our mothers. But if that was a problem – then by...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
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the redundant 'it' of 'it is raining'
Been reading more Alan Watts. No one I’ve read or listened to has more succintly and pithily summed up the core ideas of Buddhist Dharma...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
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A mindful musing on mindless violence
I’m still a bit dizzy from the events in London town these last few days but one thing jumped out of the disorientating static of...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
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45 minutes from Kings Cross: music, ho.
A week or so ago I was phoned up by my composer friend, Jeremy Thurlow. Back in 2007 we collaborated on a choral-electronic-video-text...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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“Find Flesh”: Twitter, Bullies and the Power of Depth
The events of the last few months have brought me back to Twitter. I suppose it’s a despair in the shocking state of a lot of newspaper...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20195 min read
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"The white bees / swarm out": J.H.Prynne and Me
I’ve loved J H Prynne’s poetry ever since Easter Term 1989. I know that date because it’s penned into the front cover of my now slightly...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20194 min read
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wiosna przyszł
I start to sniff out for signs of Spring earlier and earlier every year. Convinced that deep underground the bulbs and seeds are spinning...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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Nightshifting
Will said that the reason the orchestra didn’t come out front to the bar after the concert tonight was because they were drinking the...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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Henry Moore at Kew
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20191 min read
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Be Kind Rewind: the rebirth of the bespoke.
God, I loved this movie. Gondry’s a visual genius (re. White Stripes videos and that one with Kylie Minogue, or the one for Let Forever...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20192 min read
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Take Care of Yourself
Went to the Whitechapel for the first time since it’s be refitted. (Lovely tactile door handles.) Alex had encouraged me to go and see...

Alistair Appleton
Apr 14, 20193 min read
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