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Phew…Good job I don’t suffer from high blood presssure as the novel is winding  me up SO MUCH!  Coitus interruptus stylistically and thematically. Everywhere I look what do I see… Read More »Atonement.

The Short Story.     Seminar Schedule.   1)    Introductory Session: Hemingway’s Cat in the Rain; Lydia Davis. 2)    Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher; The… Read More »

Prose Fiction 2.   Workshop.       Examine the passages from McEwan’s Atonement and Dickens’s Great Expectations. Pay particular attention to the ways in which a sense of ‘reality’… Read More »

Away from home.   It has been so long since she used a metaphor!   Metaphors are our means of bringing our disparate worlds together through words. Home in this… Read More »The Art of Lydia Davis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkKxGzm98AU   First time I heard this I thought it recklessly tuneful and decadently sexy! Lollopy guitar too….and he is the come back kid! Windows -down -song with strongly all… Read More »Edwyn Collins: Girl like you

Started Atonement and it is exactingly well written: ‘tiny frets about the household’ and ‘the stews of her untidied room.’  Does deliver  the ‘tale’ in a crafted, thoughtful style…but it… Read More »Just Atoning for McEwan!

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary… Read More »Cecil Beaton's Thought for the day!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d41TPgRdFPs There are advantages to hire cars; not least that the previous driver might have programmed the radio to a radically different set of stations. My fabulous few days in… Read More »Jamie Scott: When Will I see your face again?

All this talk of wolves makes me remember one of most extraordinary books of the Twentieth Century and one which had a massive emotional impact on me when I read… Read More »Dr Zhivago : Lara's Theme

  Claire already read and thinks ‘genius’!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lvMQCmUVv8 How irresistible the rhythm and beat of this duo as they really show how to play the acoustic guitar! Puts the wow back into your body and soul! Resist… Read More »Rodrigo Y Gabriela 'diablo rojo' …' it's a rollercoaster'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFp-7Zr3ziw When I walk in your shoesI understand a man confusedThere must have been but I don’t careI feel the way your soul does thereDarling they empathiseLooking through your bloodshot… Read More »Amy Winehouse Help Yourself: fabulous voice – heal thyself !

Tusitala Tuition and Essay Feedback Service.   What is so special about Tusitala Tuition is YOU- the student!   Every English Student is an individual with particular talents and interests.… Read More »

Mabel Chiltern : To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing, and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Lord Arthur Goring: I’m sorry,… Read More »Rupert Everett In Wilde's Ideal Husband

“Honey,” she said in the middle of the first course. “Have you let your character in yet?” “What do you mean, Shaz?” I replied, slightly wearily. I always find that… Read More »Rupert Everett : Red Carpets and other Banana Skins – on Sharon Stone

“On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.” Once again… Read More »Why do we continue Reading Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold?