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Novemberland: Next Customer Please
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Published by Darren Seeley on Wednesday, 30 November 2011. I realise now it is a strange behaviour but I cannot unlearn it. I have tried, truly tried and in my battle I have approached a place which felt very much like the margin of irrationality. A checkpoint beyond which a worryingly few number of footsteps would put me in the very heartlands of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. What am I afraid of? That someone will buy my shopping? What if it was the only one left on the shelf. But then this would n...
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Novemberland: Welcome to Novemberland
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Published by Darren Seeley on Saturday, 1 October 2011. The mid nineties was a blossoming uncynical time for me and technology and incredibly exciting. It was a time before Google existed and the gates to the world wide web were guarded by the now vaguely remembered likes of Lycos, Web Crawler and Alta Vista. This early experience has undoubtedly spoiled me somewhat and I do lament a time when people didn't think a search engine was the actual internet. 1995 was also a time when buying someone else's pos...
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Novemberland: November 2011
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Published by Darren Seeley on Wednesday, 30 November 2011. I realise now it is a strange behaviour but I cannot unlearn it. I have tried, truly tried and in my battle I have approached a place which felt very much like the margin of irrationality. A checkpoint beyond which a worryingly few number of footsteps would put me in the very heartlands of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. What am I afraid of? That someone will buy my shopping? What if it was the only one left on the shelf. But then this would n...
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Novemberland: 100 Word Plays
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Published by Darren Seeley on Thursday, 22 March 2012. The Royal Court theatre called for 100 word play submissions as part of their Young Writers Festival. Luckily for me, you don't have to be young to take part. I wrote three. Here they are. Two men sit together on bench in a launderette. Dan I don't see any other way. Dan We've exhausted. I mean Mike, we've utterly. Exhausted all other possible solutions. Mike And none's gonna work. Dan Nothing is going to work Mike. Thought I had something there!
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Novemberland: March 2012
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Published by Darren Seeley on Thursday, 22 March 2012. The Royal Court theatre called for 100 word play submissions as part of their Young Writers Festival. Luckily for me, you don't have to be young to take part. I wrote three. Here they are. Two men sit together on bench in a launderette. Dan I don't see any other way. Dan We've exhausted. I mean Mike, we've utterly. Exhausted all other possible solutions. Mike And none's gonna work. Dan Nothing is going to work Mike. Thought I had something there!
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Novemberland: Not Waving But Drowning
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Not Waving But Drowning. Published by Darren Seeley on Tuesday, 1 May 2012. Now When I say I am learning to swim, I really mean that I am learning the next stage after 'not sinking and moving about a bit in a body of water'. I've never had formal lessons, but my inauguration to the first stage of such unassisted solo water activity began quite dramatically on the Costa Del Sol in 1974. A copy of which I found in a second hand bookshop. Of course, anything that can be analysed to this degree means there i...
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Novemberland: The Road To Trowviille
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The Road To Trowviille. Published by Darren Seeley on Sunday, 23 June 2013. We saw them on the road between Old Bridge Creek and Trowville. At first, it was just part of a foot, the heel slipping between the trees back into the forest, but then a little further along the road where the apron of grassland widened in front of the treeline, we saw a whole one. I said they were like giant carnivorous cows emerging from the forest at night to feed by the mercy of dumb animals, bad drivers and luck. Now I've s...
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Novemberland: On the Grass
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Published by Darren Seeley 133 Word Play. On Saturday, 22 June 2013. We walked for miles that day. Was it warm? It was perfect. We laid down on the grass don’t you remember? On the South Bank? Yeah, just before the Oxo Tower. Of course. (smiling) I couldn’t move. You’d leant your head on my legs and I didn’t want to move (beat) in case you did. I think I felt your heartbeat. Christ. I was anxious. Didn’t you think it was strange though? Like maybe I was having a heart attack. Oh so you were making a move!
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Novemberland: May 2012
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Not Waving But Drowning. Published by Darren Seeley on Tuesday, 1 May 2012. Now When I say I am learning to swim, I really mean that I am learning the next stage after 'not sinking and moving about a bit in a body of water'. I've never had formal lessons, but my inauguration to the first stage of such unassisted solo water activity began quite dramatically on the Costa Del Sol in 1974. A copy of which I found in a second hand bookshop. Of course, anything that can be analysed to this degree means there i...
