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The Vonnegut Challenge
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April 11, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

At the writing community Fictionaut, Ramon Collins started in interesting debate on an old issue, a challenge for the modern writer thrown out …
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Category: Commentary, Philosophy, Question, Writerly Advice | Tags: anniversary, Bertrand Russell, D. H. Lawrence, David Shields, fictionaut, H. G. Wells, Henry James, Kurt Vonnegut, Matt Robinson, Ramon Collins, Shakespeare, Watch and Ward, Yareah
Writing As Time Travel
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February 20, 2013 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I’m interested in the concept of time that dominates the user interface of Facebook. Unless I’m very different from everyone …
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Category: Facebook, Philosophy | Tags: Bergson, Einstein, Heidegger, McTaggart, nietzsche, Proust, Whitehead, Wittgenstein
Feet-grabbing angels
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September 28, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I am sick of my routines. One of the routines I’m sick of is that I get routinely sick of my routines. …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Philosophy | Tags: 100 days 2012
I can’t go on, I’ll go on
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August 20, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Met a few old writer friends for pasta, beer and ice cream. I notice how I’m relentlessly trying to stir …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Horoscope, Philosophy, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Beckett, horoscope
A Titan’s Course
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August 19, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

Beginning the day with the usual mixture of non-doing and flagellating myself silently and subtly for doing so: this is …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Philosophy, The Picture Goers, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Chaucer, Dante, E E Cummings, Gustave Dore, Henry James, treasure
missing flower of evil
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August 7, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

The sudden disappearance of my coffee shop where they also roasted and ground the coffee that I drank at home …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Goings-on, Philosophy, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Baudelaire, coffee, Fleurs du Mal, Raymond Chandler, Van Dine
Lehrer’s Teachings: On Plagiarism
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July 30, 2012 by Marcus Speh (Birkenkrahe)

I’ve only just heard about the plagiarizing/fabricating scandals involving Jonah Lehrer. It is, from the point of view of a …
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Category: 100 Days Of Summer, Commentary, Philosophy, Writerly Advice | Tags: 100 days 2012, Axolotl Roadkill, Goya, Helene Hegemann, Jonah Lehrer, Karl Georg von Guttenberg

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«At a party, I stood next to a bald guy with a beard who didn’t say anything. I noticed a nearby couple put their heads together and whisper while pointing at me. They were smiling so I went over and inquired if I could help them in any way. “No, not at all,” said the woman, “but listen, isn’t that Sir Salman Rushdie who stood next to you just now? We’re such fans.” The man nodded.»

Excerpt from: My Friend Salman Rushdie, in: Pachydermini Pack 4 (Turtleneck Press); donation dependent download.

«Tara, I look at us in that photo, taken so many years ago, I look at you sandwiched between Tom and me, with our left arms in casts, so ridiculous, it makes me think of music that is ridiculous also, music by Charles Ives with two bands playing against one another, or two melodies backpacking a third, or an instrument entering a dialog of two other instruments like a dangerous stranger. It makes me think of your musical voice and your rich hair, Tara, I’m thinking of you as my ship begins the landing process.»

Excerpt from: Friends, in: In Those Days We, available online at Issuu. Paperback version to appear.

Now at Amazon as paperback and on Kindle. See also goodreads.

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