Wrestling Emily Dickinson
The life & opinions of AJ McKenna.
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Pyjama Revenge (after...oh, take a wild, leaping guess)
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The part of me that hates to bake would make my birthday cake for you if you asked me in that tone of voice telling me you have to: rea...
Friday, 22 May 2015
A nice bath and painkillers (another one after Peter Strickland)
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It's all downhill from now, she says, and her younger lover smiles, and tells her she's many years left . I have been that younge...
Saturday, 16 May 2015
The Flirtatious Use of Tape Measures (after Peter Strickland)
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I'm double-bluff and Highsmith riffs, I know this: if another woman's eyes met mine the way Fatma looks at Chiara during the meas...
Friday, 15 May 2015
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I learned the fear of love again after the needle went in. Concluded it meant other things, my body now at hazard: removing clothes in ...
Friday, 8 May 2015
Morality
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They say you demonstrate your morality by what you do when no-one's watching. Before the election, I signed up to a website, a tactica...
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
A Charm Against Love
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To will yourself to never fall in love, you'll need no potion, amulet or charm. Just, for every likely prospect, factor in the likely...
Richard Dawkins and love songs
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She says: I listen to love songs the way Richard Dawkins must listen to hymns: I understand the comfort that they bring but can't b...
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