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The Page – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. I started writing The Page in 2010, at a time of deep changes in my personal life. Initially, I wanted to exorcise some of the ghosts of my childhood, starting in the little town where I was brought up and lived for fifteen years. Over time the initial structure of the novel drifted, under the pressure of changing interests, travel and world events. Has its own site here. At the school gate. He walked the silent streets, his only compan...
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mirror – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. You follow me everywhere, awake, on the long walks through the valleys, and the lazy summer evenings, at night, in the deep, dark dreams of lost kingdoms and evil wizards… You know my tastes, and you know how to ensure I know yours, this exchange as old as the tribe, our tribe, of dreamers, of wanderers, of lost boys. June 21, 2016. The geography is immense, as the novel. Meanders...
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#FiveSentenceFiction: Thief – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. For us this is sacred land, soil enriched by the blood of our ancestors, in their endless fight against invaders. As children we were told the stories, the lives of those heroes, alive today in the trees and our souls, and we were taught how to fight too. The sun was high, the air hot, we could see them sweating under their armour, as their predecessors always did. July 10, 2015. 2 thoughts on “ #FiveSentenceFiction: Thief. You are comm...
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#amwriting – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. For now, I have shelved my “magnus opus”, “ The Page. Good Speculative Fiction: Substantial Imagination. Jeffrey Sachs, on Sustainable Development. The age of sustainable development. 3 thoughts on “ #amwriting. February 18, 2012 at 2:16 pm. How far off finishing do you think you might be? February 18, 2012 at 8:14 pm. January 31, 2014 at 5:49 am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click a...
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#FiveSentenceFiction: Bubbles – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. In the silent house she sits, and thinks of you, writes a letter – which you will never receive. Long ago you met, and you loved, in the silent house – and then you left. Her, in her poor, wounded heart, she cannot leave – she lives in the bubbles of her memories, for you long forgotten. Such is the law of love, a much asymmetrical feeling, one party always staying put, while the other floats away…. July 28, 2015. Oh my gosh, stunning p...
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memories – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. Berlin, Stadt der Frauen #stadtderfrauen. Until 28 August the Stadt Museum exhibition, “ Stadt der Frauen. 8220;, offers in sound and pictures twenty biographies of talented, heroic, sometimes outrageous, human beings, who lived in Berlin, all women. Don’t miss it is you are in the city. From the socialists of the pioneering period preceding World War 1, to the Trümmerfrauen of 1945, go and have a look at courage and grit. The deed is d...
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planet – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. The sky was deep blue, the four moons guarded by silver clouds: the waves slowly caressed the black sand… There you stood, wrapped in the red toga of your caste, the two deep wells of your eyes reflecting an amused surprise, looking at me. What was that alien form, was the creature alive, or a mere machine sent to trouble the peace of the chosen by some jealous minor deity? Pino G...
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life – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. Berlin, Stadt der Frauen #stadtderfrauen. Until 28 August the Stadt Museum exhibition, “ Stadt der Frauen. 8220;, offers in sound and pictures twenty biographies of talented, heroic, sometimes outrageous, human beings, who lived in Berlin, all women. Don’t miss it is you are in the city. From the socialists of the pioneering period preceding World War 1, to the Trümmerfrauen of 1945, go and have a look at courage and grit. Maybe one day...
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Arizona – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. Publish a new post on your blog interpreting the theme…. Since their land was so inhospitable to foreign eyes, they retained their freedom longer than those tribes whose territory the predators desired, and plundered. Little did the invaders knew that the old prophecy had been tested: they were imposters, their creed a fraud, their ignoble brutality a sign they were of inferior stock to the tribes that knew the Peaceful Way. May 18, 2016.
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#FiveSentenceFiction: Flames – Of Glass & Paper
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Of Glass and Paper. Sisyphus47's writing blog. A boat named Arrakis. 8220;Would he lie to me? The insidious thought crossed her mind, lingered, before she recalled “he” had been gone for several months, in fact five months, and she was now free. It might have been a great passion, the kind of encounter that leaves one bruised, ecstatic, changed, all at once, but she was glad now that it was over. Still: was he lying, cheating, pretending? Image: Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) – La haine (1908). July 2, 2015.
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