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Christopher Mollison

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Christopher Mollison
In Politics, Tech

Eugoogleogy

Copyright Urban Mole 2016 Trust is a mountaineer's rope made from the laces of dead climbers' shoes. It is predicated on truth values but incorporates fallibility because often the thing you trust, or the class of thing you trust, has been known to fail. Scientists sometimes lie, air planes occasionally…
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Christopher Mollison
In Mind, Poetry

Speak-See and Mouth-Mind Topology

kiki bouba, Copyright Urban Mole 2016 I read a German children's book on woods and woodland creatures recently, and found myself stuck on page fifteen saying "hohl, hohl, hohl" like a Danish Santa Claus. It means hollow, and it makes hollow when you say it. Hohl. It's connected to words…
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Christopher Mollison
In Poetry

The Importance of Stillness

Copyright Urban Mole 2016 I was on the train recently, staring at the rails and the blur of sleepers between. If I very quickly moved my eyes against the direction of travel, I caught a glimpse of an individual sleeper and its neighbours; I was able to slow the flow…
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Christopher Mollison
In Literature

The Book

Kipling, Rudyard  / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain It's chasmic, the fall of words down lines curved by the half open page to the black gulch below, where shadows form on sunny days or in the half light, oblique; at fifty degrees and cool as the cover is under the…
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Christopher Mollison
In Poetry

Crow Work: A Kill

Copyright: Faber & Faber A Kill's power is in its fifteenth line, in the only spoken text of the poem: ``It's a boy!'' It's a fulcrum and it prises the perception of a brutal, lingering death to show a birth. But it's no gift.
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Christopher Mollison
In Jazz

London Undergrind

Binker Golding (Copyright Karin Mora 2016) London can never be silent. Like any city it's a generator, always on, always on maximum. Doors and windows do little to dull the amplitude of its eight million residents. The sound translates to galleries and museums, whose stone floors and vaults echo schools…
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