Posts by Geoff Lealand
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E M Forster, in Aspects of the Novel, responded to the claim that a novel was a good story with "oh dear."
I kind of like Philip Larkin's idea of "A beginning, a muddle and an end"
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E M Forster, in Aspects of the Novel, responded to the claim that a novel was a good story with "oh dear."
I kind of like Philip Larkin's idea of "A beginning, a muddle and an end"
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I think it would be fine if people came dressed as their avatars
Hmm. I will have find out how Tom Hanks did that age-reversal thing in Big. Don't think I could squeeze into that lovely woolly jersey any more
pretty sure the test in 84 was in Australia.
You are probably right.
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re audiences for test (rugby, that is): when I worked in the BCNZ Audience Research Unit in the early 1980s, there were two parallel ratings systems, and quite possibly more accurate audience measurement than happens now. There was, for example, a weekly turnover of the audience panel, rather than the same old, predictable 500 households who represent the 'official' TV audience these days. I recall writing a report on the NZ television audience in 1984, when the top rating programme for the year was 54% (that is, more than half!!) of the potential viewing audience, for an AB vs Wallabies test match in Auckland.
I am seriously considering getting to the Thursday do, in advance of the Lucinda Williams concert on Friday. If so, I will bring my own name badge.
Just In: Phil Spector has been found guilty of murder.
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Good to hear you on NatRadio this morning, H.
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Good to hear you on NatRadio this morning, H.
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But maybe they believe in Hell, FOR OTHER PEOPLE!
or, Sartre put it, "Hell is other people"???
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Interesting that this information arrives on the doorstep of Easter, which has zilch religious significance for me--and buns and bunnies don't work, either. In fact (and I know it sounds perverse), it comes at a bad time. I have just got a head of steam up in teaching World Cinema and other stuff, and now the students wander off for two weeks.
Where is Craig these days? He hasn't popped up, in our deliberations, for quite some time.
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Tolley was the incoming Minister of Tertiary Education who had to ask her officials "what is a vice-chancellor?".
I have always liked the idea of a 'Pro vice chancellor' but wonder if there are any "Anti vice chancellors"
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So... do you want us to beg? Is that how you operate?
What me? Never!
The story: We detoured via Pandy (close by Offa's Dyke on the Welsh border on a trip to Port Merrion in 2004) I couldn't find Raymond William's old home so we had lunch at the local pub and asked the locals. There was an old bloke propping up the bar, and his response was "I will go home and ask me ma, who is making my lunch" (she must have been 80 or 90!). He came back 30 minutes later, with the news that his mother used to be a district nurse and may well have assisted in Raymond's birth.
So, we were directed to the house on a little lane. It had the requisite birthplace signI wonder where Roland Barthes is buried. Is his monument in the shape of a laundry truck? Call me obsessed but I have also visited the graves of Satre and Wittgenstein.