podesta http://www.podesta.org.uk the harried autodidact Mon, 06 May 2013 20:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 the harried autodidact podesta no the harried autodidact podesta http://www.podesta.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.podesta.org.uk IMG_9981 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Podestaorguk/~3/iFkoxzCtObY/ http://www.podesta.org.uk/2013/05/06/img_9981/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 20:00:30 +0000 podesta http://www.podesta.org.uk/?p=360 IMG_9981

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Iris went down this on her own
:-)

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My favourite part:

Mieville:

Even if so, it in no way implies that stories are good things. What if our nightmare existential condition…what if it is our tragedy that we have this innate, bone-deep hankering for stories? Maybe it is like an addiction. Or maybe it is a banality. Like humans are hard-wired to shit. It is my hope that story is poo instead of evil.

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Oddly, the winner didn’t grab me as much as some of the others.

BBC News – Garden glory through a lens.

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EDL – English Disco Lovers NOT English Defence League – Home.

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BBC Radio 4 – Today, 30/01/2013, Heaney: Poetry was ‘entrancing’.

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There is no alternative?

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Not Gove’s finest hour – I would love to know where he gets these ideas from.  They can’t just be from the back of an envelope, or emerging from his dim memories of the plush private sixth-form he attended, can they?

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I bought my cameras from them, as I valued the advice, and a good friend used to work there.   However, I got my lenses and my memory cards online, so I guess I was part of the problem too.

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