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Notes From A Rooom

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Literary meditations and explorations. This blog's main influences are Rilke and Leonard Cohen.

Added on: Oct 31st, 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

Author: Peter
Listed in: Writing Fiction
Tags: poetry fiction writing short stories creative writing prose poetry

Recent Posts

Better hope deferred than none

Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 05:54 in beckett

Deviser of the voice and of its hearer and of himself. Deviser of himself for company. Leave it at that. He speaks of himself as of another. He says speaking of himself, He speaks of himself as of another. Himself he devises too for company. Leave it...
Dialogue of the Ferryman and the River-Dweller

Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 06:28 in jabés

River-dweller: I cannot get to the other bank without your help. Ferryman, tell me of the other bank. Ferryman: For me, it is the bank to get to, just like this one is when I am over there. River-dweller: Is it like the banks of my childhood? It is s...
A bad ghost

Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 06:49 in writing, x

X tells me he thinks some malevolent spirit must have visited him in the womb, a bad ghost. I can sense it now, is it you? he asks me. Something went wrong somewhere, he says, probably as far back as the womb. You slipped out of the womb with me, did...
Freedom

Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 17:41 in writing, x

What does he want? X asks me. Essentially he wants the freedom to choose, to say what he chooses and choose what he says. He wants the freedom to argue, discuss and debate his thoughts on the universe, life and state of the nation, sports or the hott...
Leaders

Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 15:12 in writing, x

X has found out what he needs to do, he tells me. He needs to kill his idols, hunt down all his Buddhas and kill them, leave them dying by the side of the road. He needs to stop being such a toady, he says, stop looking for a leader to show him the w...