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I won't make any grand promises as to what you'll find here, but I guess that you'll find postings to do with history (not 'facts' so much as how so much of what we do and believe is informed by what we believe to have happened in the past); books I'm reading/have read (not to limit what those might be, but to give an idea of what I read again and again see below*); film (mainly commercial, though I've particularly got a soft spot for what I think of as gothic adult fairy-tales - more usually identified as Amicus and Hammer horror - and the more intelligent end of sci-fi - Bladerunner, Alien, The Fly (Cronenberg) etc); music (mainly classical); more general cultural issues (especially relating to national identity); relationships etc.
Nor will I say too much about myself for now - you'll probably learn a lot on that subject as time goes on. Suffice to say I earn my living as a writer and editor, and from time to time I've felt the need for some personal space to express some thoughts without the pressure to meet some other editor's brief. And why 'Pierre'? That's not my real name, but a long time ago - when I was in my late teens - a very dear friend of mine said I reminded him of a character in Tolstoy's War and Peace. I didn't know what he meant at the time, and began to realise only recently when I saw a production of Prokofiev's opera based on that door-stopper of a novel (and, to my surprise, enjoyed the experience). I've tried to read the novel since: it's certainly excellent and psychologically penetrating, but to physically find the time to read it is a problem...
I'll sign off now - have plenty to do in the 'real' world at present, but I'm sure I will be back.
*A selection of books I've enjoyed so much that I've re-read them with pleasure years later (no particular order):
Paul Scott Raj Quartet
Russell Hoban The Mouse and his Child
George Orwell Homage to Catalonia
Richard Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica
AA Milne Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner
I won't make any grand promises as to what you'll find here, but I guess that you'll find postings to do with history (not 'facts' so much as how so much of what we do and believe is informed by what we believe to have happened in the past); books I'm reading/have read (not to limit what those might be, but to give an idea of what I read again and again see below*); film (mainly commercial, though I've particularly got a soft spot for what I think of as gothic adult fairy-tales - more usually identified as Amicus and Hammer horror - and the more intelligent end of sci-fi - Bladerunner, Alien, The Fly (Cronenberg) etc); music (mainly classical); more general cultural issues (especially relating to national identity); relationships etc.
Nor will I say too much about myself for now - you'll probably learn a lot on that subject as time goes on. Suffice to say I earn my living as a writer and editor, and from time to time I've felt the need for some personal space to express some thoughts without the pressure to meet some other editor's brief. And why 'Pierre'? That's not my real name, but a long time ago - when I was in my late teens - a very dear friend of mine said I reminded him of a character in Tolstoy's War and Peace. I didn't know what he meant at the time, and began to realise only recently when I saw a production of Prokofiev's opera based on that door-stopper of a novel (and, to my surprise, enjoyed the experience). I've tried to read the novel since: it's certainly excellent and psychologically penetrating, but to physically find the time to read it is a problem...
I'll sign off now - have plenty to do in the 'real' world at present, but I'm sure I will be back.
*A selection of books I've enjoyed so much that I've re-read them with pleasure years later (no particular order):
Paul Scott Raj Quartet
Russell Hoban The Mouse and his Child
George Orwell Homage to Catalonia
Richard Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica
AA Milne Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner
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