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1915 | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. DH Lawrence’s The Rainbow – Fifty Shades of Grace. July 5, 2015. A hundred years on from the release of. This captivating, curious book still regularly appears in best novel lists even if its status is more down to the author’s love affair with the natural world rather than any deep insight into humanity. The Virgin and the Gipsy.

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Art Without Boundaries | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. This page is about how far a writer can go in terms of freedom and speech without provoking unnecessary or gratuitous harm in people who’d rather not get involved in that sort of artistic ding-dong. Let me give you an example. This is the first line of a manuscript called In A Rushdie Winter,. On page 146, I write, in relation to ...

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A Fistful of Dust | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. A Fistful of Dust. Good luck, Mr Shah,’ he said. Er, Shah’s my first name.’. On my old Hitachi 28 inch? Until I was fit and well, of course, but Dr Howarth’s brutal verdict suggested I was far from that. We’ve finally got a diagnosis,’ I said, raising my sweaty face from the bowl. See Daddy, that’s why you need to come with me,’ s...

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POP Will Eat Itself | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. POP Will Eat Itself. I admit that’s the slightly exaggerated version but writer’s have a magnetic relationship to illness – and the evidence for their sickie storms is overwhelming or selective depending on your bias, prejudice or deep love for a particular genius. But does it prove anything? All people go through bouts of illness...

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Carry on up the Cyber | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. Carry on up the Cyber. Books, music and newspapers are in crisis, we’re told, because the digital zombie is ripping out their hearts, feasting on their words and serving everything up free and easy on the internet. Where will it all end? Feel it in your hands. There is a similar anxiety in the music and books industries. They ...

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Nasser Hashmi | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. Author Archives: Nasser Hashmi. Reflections on Tarkovsky, the meandering magician. April 20, 2016. The Russian film-maker’s world is generally a place of lost souls and heavy hearts with nature offering the only solace to humanity’s dreadful descent into war, capitalism and greed. His first film Ivan’s Childhood. A colossal, three...

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A Tale That Wags | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. A Tale That Wags. Word up, word up, join up for my new creative writing course online which will give you tons of tips on how to become a writer while trousering some crispy notes off you at the same time. So, as promised, now that I’ve alienated most of the agents and publishers in our wonderful land, I’ll give you an...1 The fir...

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D for Doubt | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. This word usually hangs around a writer’s neck like an L-plate as they contemplate the world they have created and whether it’s worth pursuing: the evil pop-up we know as doubt. All writers experience it and mine usually rears its ugly head about halfway through a novel. Is this rubbish? Are the characters well-rounded enough?

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A Clockwork Orange | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. In terms of censorship, bans and all-round controversy this film (and book, to a certain extent) has gone to the distance and is still delivering knockabout blows. This is a writer’s lot, for better or worse. The imagination up on screen – the painstaking, careful collaboration – will never match the intuitiv...Whatever the reason...

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Season of Sid | NasserOnMars

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Deep exploration on planet culture. A Fistful of Dust. Seventeen Gifts for Frannie and Jess. Exile on Vain Street. POP Will Eat Itself. A Tale That Wags. Carry on up the Cyber. The dozy teachers should have been able to tell it weren’t us but if they’re too busy thinking of their summer holidays it’s their problem. War of the Roses,’ he shouted. ‘Come on lads, War of the Roses’. But just as I were thinking about Lino’s tactics for today’s game, I looked across to the right and saw the man I thought I mig...