Oh god, I LOVE these moments- when you are stuck, sifting through pages and pages of crappy criticisms, and suddenly, WHAM! it strikes you like lightning, everything becomes clear - the essential point you've been searching for suddenly materialises in your own brain (that's so so satisfying) and it's just exactly what you need to hinge your whole ( Read more... )

Yes, I apologise, yet more shoddy uni inspired rambles.

‘Turn Loose the Swans: Yeats and his Yearning’

( Read more... )

I really enjoyed this novel - which surprised me, because it's not the kind of thing I would usually go in for - it's too slow, too descriptive, too "let's write an angsty novel, full of people sitting around in darkened rooms, having very deep and philosophical discussions" But for some reason it struck a chord. So. Here are some thoughts ( Read more... )