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Every Good Mystery Has A Satisfying Conclusion
“Communism was just a red herring.” Wadsworth – Clue (1985) Our MA programmes were tasked with creating and maintaining a scholarly blog in early October, which would ultimately culminate with this post, a portfolio of sorts tracking the progress of my writing and my development as a scholar of sorts. Now, there is nothing stopping…
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Notes on Seminars
“You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.” Sherlock Holmes I attended 3 seminars this semester, focusing on various topics that interested me or that I had never studied previously. Throughout the 3 seminars, I noted just how different the styles of presenting were, from using a…
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The Curtains Are Blue
I hate metaphors. That’s why my favorite book is Moby Dick! No froo-froo symbolism, just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal. Ron Swanson Spending a lot of my time online has resulted in my assumption that most of the internet is made up of teenagers trying to get back at…
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A Start
Everything must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley A blank page is often the biggest hurdle to writing. In the case of this blog, even getting to a blank page proved tricky. Not one for simple decisions, I spent…