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	<title>Some Blind Alleys &#187; Column 2</title>
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	<description>Creative Writing Course and Workshops Dublin</description>
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		<title>On the butchery of fingernails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

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The nail on the back of my right thumb has an imperfection that I find very cool. It is a defined brown-maroon stripe running parallel to the left side of my nail. I don’t specifically remember what I did to cause it. I have a memory of biting my nail to such a degree that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevan Lahart, RHA Gallery 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nevan Lahart’s A Lively Start to a Dead End is currently on show at the RHA Gallery 1. It is a large, wild installation that dominates the entire gallery space. He sent a non-press release to publicise the show: it contains none of the formulaic art-speak that accompanies many contemporary Irish art exhibitions. He even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five words that make your prose more poetic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Column 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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Whilst
Margaret picked blackberries to adorn her tresses whilst&#8230;
Amongst
The city was abandoned. Serge searched amongst&#8230;
Lest
Drink not the new wine, lest&#8230;
Save (meaning except)
There was nobody at the beach, save an old woman&#8230;
Amidst
Gertrude and Drake, walking through the meadow, paused amidst&#8230;
- Chaz Snowflake
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		<title>Some sentences that remind me there is no longer any world, only fragments of a shattered universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solitude]]></category>

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When I was in Vietnam last summer, I found everything very dull. My indifference made me long to go home, to a landscape I&#8217;d be emotionally connected to. An understandable desire, but a deceiving one. In truth, I have no sacred spaces, no fixed point in the outside world. 
From The Sacred and the Profane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Books, No. 2</title>
		<link>http://someblindalleys.com/index.php/2010/01/27/of-books-no-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>

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Literature is, for me, a way to evade awareness of death. I see reading and writing as distractions from life and death, or fortifications against the anxiety and unhappiness that accompanies conscious being. Dostoevsky’s narrator in Notes from the Underground calls anxiety the disease of being too conscious. La Rochefoucauld wrote: “One can no more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seppuku, or, The art of doing violence to oneself</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>

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I recently read a book about Noh theatre – Japanese musical drama dating from the fourteenth century. The writer spent the first fifty pages on a history of feudal Japan from the tenth century until 1868. He discussed the importance of art to people in everyday life. For example, as the emperor’s power had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Books, No. 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

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When I have a problem that keeps me up at night, I go to a bookshop for the solution.  I have yet to encounter a problem that has not been somewhat resolved by something I have read in a book.  I am comforted by the idea that no matter what is troubling me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Dickens by Michael Slater, Yale University Press, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Dickens, a new biography by Michael Slater, is the first major biography of the great Victorian novelist in twenty years, since Peter Ackroyd’s Dickens. 
Little new information has come to light about Dickens in the intervening period, so Slater covers the same ground as Ackroyd and others. 
Slater’s book stands out, however, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five things you should never say to your boyfriend</title>
		<link>http://someblindalleys.com/index.php/2010/01/17/five-things-you-should-never-say-to-your-boyfriend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>

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You pride yourself on your open, honest relationship. But that doesn&#8217;t mean you should blurt out any thought that comes to mind. Sometimes, a comment that seems perfectly harmless to you might be hurtful, awkward or just plain irritating to your boyfriend.
Here are five such comments. Ignore us at your own risk!
1. &#8220;Do You Think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In conversation with&#8230; Schopenhauer</title>
		<link>http://someblindalleys.com/index.php/2010/01/14/in-conversationschopenhauer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Q: Why do we associate high art with misery? Can&#8217;t art be fulfilling, uplifting, idealistic?
Schopenhauer: The world is a hell of suffering and struggle. 
- David Bremen
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