I have been in therapy lately, and this is the world’s worst kept secret. Ok… not only lately. I’m one of those people who needed a fair bit of analysis in my life. (I just wrote lie for life – the recognition of Freudian slips is one of the disagreeable side effects of too much […]
Author Archives: lisathatcher
On Being a Good Reader.
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I am a good reader. I say I am a good reader, not because I read a lot. I did complete a speed reading course. I can speed read something, get “a deep gist”, say I’ve read it and understand that to be the case. I read plenty of books and articles this way, and […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (Working Title) 4
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Daniel “Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognising that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.” Cyril Joad The cavernous thrill passing through Daniel told him this is the day. This of […]
5923 Quarterly Publishes ‘Everybody’s Talking’
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5923 Quarterly Literary Journal have just published my short story ‘Everybody’s Talking’. This is a story based on the Harry Nilsson song of the same name. It’s an experimental piece that I wrote paying homage to the very great Susan Sontag who is a stylistic guru of mine. Its a story about the deterioration of […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (working title) 3
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Rose The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Dawkins, R Rose Staff, currently the object of desire for two men in her field of influence, both of which planned to change their lives dramatically around her, used to be a beautiful woman. That […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (Working Title) 2
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Please enjoy this second excerpt from my novel in progress, and allow me to remind you that this is a first draft. As such, expect a great deal of this to change – including the very overt and grateful nod to the great Zadie Smith. Thanks, Lisa. Alex 218 The Greeks as interpreters – When […]
Novel Excerpt – Prolix (working Title)
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John “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” Immanuel Kant John heard the back door slam and with a Pavlovian response his body sighed tension. This set his upper buttocks free, returned his chest and neck from pyramid-brick-state to house-brick-state, […]
Why I love Miller and hate Hemingway, or how I pick and choose my misogynists.
posted by lisathatcher
Ok, so I can feminist it up with the best of them. I’ve been down most of the paths: Intellectual antidisestablishmentarianism media whore with Germaine Greer; ultra pissed-off-ed-ness with Susan Brown-Miller and Alanis Morissette (ok, I may never have been THAT shitty); chemistry studies with Mary Daly to try to develop synthetic sperm; Übermensch intelligent […]
Spalovac mrtvol (The Cremator) – A film by Juraj Herz
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What a magnificent film experience! This film is touted as a film for horror buffs, and wile I can understand the reference, I would never cement it it that genre. For me, this is more an example of the Czech new wave, and a fine translation of a timeless story from one art form to […]
Clarities – Blandine Longre A review
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One of my favourite throw away lines that gains little social impact and yet means everything to me is that it is a magnificent time in history to be a woman. Perhaps not the very best time (I hope that is still to come) but the best the world has been able to offer thus […]
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