'Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't seek validation in the outwardly visible.' Haruki Marukami.

Sunday, April 09, 2006


Coronation Street actor
I saw this Coronation Street actor the other night in the bar of the Royal Court Theatre; don't know her name. She was with some Scottish actor, whom I was trying to glean some information from, about The Winterling. Not very successfully, as it turned out. I gave up watching soaps about 5 years ago, as a new year's resolution. It seems such a waste of a life. My mother watches it in Ireland. I can hardly watch anything now on tv as I have a tube/metro/subway station at the end of the garden that really screws up the signal. It's not much of a loss really. So I am now doing a literature degree in my spare time, which is a better use of my time. Shakespeare's Henry V tonight - must watch the Kenneth Branagh's video again. Strong parallels between Henry's justification for going to war with France and Blair's outrageous adventure in Iraq.
'Once more into the breech...'
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