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Monthly Archives: March 2012

theASHtray, vol.9

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Read, watch and listen: climate-change, Maldivian politics, Jon Shenk, Mohammed Nasheed, Radiohead, Start the Week, Anne McElvoy, Geoff Dyer, Paul Farley, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tristram Shandy, Werner Herzog, Liz Mermin, large hadron colliders, Scott Waugh, Mouse McCoy, Act of Valor, Navy Seals, John McCain, Facebook, blockbusters, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, pianos, Clementi, Mozart, Telemann, and […]

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Shower

Friday, March 30, 2012

Pale mole on my chest: damp, three dark hairs angle down like an old leaf-rake.

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On the 27th draft translation of Basho’s ‘Sound of Water’

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Master, due respect: No-one cares about the pond. Or the frog. ……………(Plop.) ……………………(Splash!)

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Epitaph for Whitman

Thursday, March 29, 2012

…………Here lies a man who sucked all the marrow out of life ………………..– …even if (as is so often true) …he probably should not have.

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theASHtray, vol.8

Saturday, March 24, 2012

This week starring Stanley Donwood, Radiohead, Vincent Van Gogh, The Wind-Up Merchant, Ric Jerrom, Oscar Wilde, Tony Hawks, Ireland, fridges, Guinness, extras, Tom Crean, Antarctic exploration, Felicity Aston, product placement, Land Rovers, Mark Ronson, Newsnight, the Olympics, Michaelangelo, and an infantile joke about muff-diving. — For theartsdesk

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After Miss Julie

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Patrick Marber’s post-war update of Strindberg’s (regular) Miss Julie, reviewed. — For theartsdesk

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Pleasure

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The brisk humiliation of a girl who hits on you, whom you had once hit on and were rejected.

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Golding the lily

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Review of Arena’s The Dreams of William Golding. — For theartsdesk

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theASHtray, vol.7

Saturday, March 17, 2012

From the arts desk at the end of the universe, reflections on Douglas Adams, Erwin Schrödinger, Joseph Kony, YouTube, Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry, Bilbo Baggins, Saul Zaentz, trademark and copyright law, Lewis Hyde, Amy Winehouse, Florence Welch, Queens of the Stone Age, MUSE, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, and the many and various meanings of Liff. […]

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Poetry exercises: 2

Friday, March 16, 2012

Valéry: a literal translation A poem is never finished; it is only

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