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Random Erasure and Discovery

May 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

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‘Societies becoming software civilisation’ is the string of words that I got from a spreadsheet I made this morning. I took ten sentences from a book and typed them into a spreadsheet. I devised a formula to randomly select one word from each sentence. With the resulting ten words, I used a random number generator to select the number of sequential words that I should grab from the arbitrary, nonsensical list. Four was the magic number, four contiguous words from ten. I purposely biased the experiment by choosing the sequential four that made some sense to me. ‘Societies becoming software civilisation’ was my reward for creating the word list in the first place.

Mountain walk erasure.
Post discovery.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, brian turner, emily temple, photo, poetry, solmaz sharif, walkingcommentary

The Arts of War

December 17, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

How would you defeat the bias of language? I don’t mean a bias that demeans or excludes people. I mean the bias that results from the lack of comprehension. Communication of representational, figurative or abstract thoughts can be tricky, even with a common language. And harder still to convey as the overlap in the roots of language lessen. A Venetian might understand the gist of an Argentinian story but what’s clear when uttered in Japanese is almost certain to be opaque to someone who hears in Greek.

Five Golden Hour Harbour Abstractions
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: albert einstein, brian turner, ed sheeran, imperial war museum, joan miró, michelangelo, nagorno-karabakh, turkey, war

Total Failure and PTSD

June 5, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There’s a small collection I like to keep beside the bed, things to dip into when the news of the world depresses me. One of the items is My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir (2014); a depressing yet brave collection. These are stories about a soldier from a family of soldiering trying to hold onto his humanity. Brian Turner has written a lot about his PTSD without really addressing it directly. I’m very pleased that we have his signature on the copy beside me.

Brian Turner and Lia Mills signing books in Enniskillen in 2014.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: beirut, booklink, brian turner, michael herr, pandemic, photos, popular, ptsd, robert fisk, tim o'brien, war

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