clivemurray.com » Culture http://www.clivemurray.com I play the guitar, you know Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:37:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “Three Turks manned the tills. Their leader, Gedik, was also monocular.” http://www.clivemurray.com/2007/08/01/three-turks-manned-the-tills-their-leader-gedik-was-also-monocular/ http://www.clivemurray.com/2007/08/01/three-turks-manned-the-tills-their-leader-gedik-was-also-monocular/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:56:57 +0000 clive http://www.clivemurray.com/2007/08/01/three-turks-manned-the-tills-their-leader-gedik-was-also-monocular/ To compensate for the titanic post of tedium most delirious wot I wrought yesterday, I bring you today Thirty Thousand Streets.

Oddly poignant and eminently readable short stories based on one young man’s experiences of moving to London. Only two instalments at this time, but as Shaw Taylor would have advised, keep ‘em peeled for more.

(Via Ade).
–c.

]]> http://www.clivemurray.com/2007/08/01/three-turks-manned-the-tills-their-leader-gedik-was-also-monocular/feed/ 0 What a piece of work is a man! http://www.clivemurray.com/2006/10/04/what-a-piece-of-work-is-a-man/ http://www.clivemurray.com/2006/10/04/what-a-piece-of-work-is-a-man/#comments Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:16:00 +0000 clive http://www.clivemurray.com/wp/?p=314 “I have of late–but wherefore I know not–lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither [...]“

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