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Oliver Sacks on writing the present

Posted on March 28, 2017 by A.D. Harper

The most we can do is to write – intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively – about what it is like living in the world at this time. — Oliver Sacks, quoted in Bill Hayes, My Life with Oliver Sacks, The Observer, … Continue reading →

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Alan Garner on creativity

Posted on April 8, 2015 by A.D. Harper

In 1966 […] I was reading graffiti in the waiting room at Alderley Edge Station. One, done in chalk, was: “Janet Heathcoat = Alan Flask. It is true.” Somebody had added, in silver lipstick, without punctuation or a capital letter: … Continue reading →

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