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Burnley Literary Festival (2016) day 7 – Sufi Music
The following has been rewritten from fragments / reconstructed following some difficulties with a Windows 10 upgrade that deleted my profile nearly 2 years back. Rumi and The Wings of Love Be in the world but not of it, so … Continue reading
Posted in General, History, Opinion, Philosophy, Review, Writing
Tagged Burnley Literary Festival, Genghis Khan, Juvaini, Khwarezm, Rumi, Sufis in Burnley, Tajiks, The Mechanics, The Turks, Turco-Mongol, Whirling Dervishes
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An Office Life 10: What’s in a Label?
What is a Label? There are various definitions for a label, for the purposes of Belwoven a label was a bespoke design and weave job lot for customer purchase. Job size could range from 500 labels to half a million. … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy
Tagged Artificial Fibre, Badges, Bell Woven, Jacquard, Pollution, Polyester, Stuart Hartley, Waste
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Memories of Doris Lessing
While I was trawling my archives for notes I’d made on Sufism in Burnley (in vain so far), an unpolished, unpublished draft post on Doris Lessing came to my attention – I was conscious I hadn’t said all I wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy, Trivia
Tagged Dark Fantasy, Doris Lessing, Erisse of the Illyany, Idries Shah, Space Fiction, Sufism, Tengrism
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Billion Year Spree – further thoughts
Just finished The Neried. About myths, legends and homelessness; set in Blackpool. My next piece is proper SF Core. Set in the core of the Milky Way, in the Galactic Bar. Explores the issues of lots of aliens living together … Continue reading
Kulturá at Kavá 2
[* edited 06/08/2016] To blog or not to blog. I shuck off thoughts of Grant Morrison’s Invisibles (Vertigo Comics) and retellings of The Fisher King. Once more I am at Kulturá at the Kavá in Todmorden. In another life, things … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Review
Tagged A Slow Blues, Aristotle, Cheetham Street Writers, Ed Reiss, Hasiwriters, Idries Shah, Kavá, Kulturá, Lucky, Mandy Pannett, Plato, Poetry, Sentinel Books, silt from distant lands, Sufi
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Writing Theory: Aristotle and Plato’s Contribution
In a few days’ time I get to do a bit of a talk; that is, in the absence of group members (holidays) and given the no show of Bury Borough Council plus writing course, I elected to provide a … Continue reading
Posted in General, Opinion, Philosophy, Writing
Tagged Aristotle, Gorgias, imitation, Ion, mimesis, Phaedrus, Philosophy, Plato, Plato The Republic, rhapsodes, The Poetics, Theory of Forms, Ultimate Good, Writing Theory
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Notes to World Building and Cosmogonies
I’m gonna talk about two things here: Cosmogony and World Creation Cosmogony Any theory concerning the coming into existence (or origin) of either the cosmos (or universe), or the so-called reality of sentient beings. World Creation Essentially a process of defining a sandbox … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Philosophy, Science, Trivia, Writing
Tagged Amber, Aristotle, Averroes, Cosmogony, Plato, Roger Zelazny, World Building, World Creation
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On Poetry
The first principle. If you wait it will fade. Explore the impulse. This assumes you have both inclination and wherewithal. The second principle Know something of it Then, bin all you know You won’t get there on rules gone stale … Continue reading
Posted in General, Opinion, Philosophy, Writing
Tagged Burnley Irony, Enchanted Forest, Poetry, The Poetics
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