Copyright Urban Mole 2017 When the Martians arrived above New Jersey in 1938, panic spread among the credulous . People couldn't flee far enough, partly because they were left breathless from all the screaming, but mostly because there was no way to outpace a threat so fast moving as to…
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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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Copyright Urban Mole 2016 Not, as the title might suggest, because he is a narcissistic arse who seeks to demoralise his foes and shame his friends one undulation at a time. His costume is a construct designed to closely adhere to the physical representation of the Platonic Form that Superman…
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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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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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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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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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