
Spanish speaking: there is the further coincidence of the recent publication of the latest “Australian Novel” by JM Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus (Harvill Secker, 2013). It is a late style work, but unlike the Edward Said critical model of either pragmatic or revolutionary unresolved contradictions, it appears to travel across an altogether different continental…

A story of two naughties: deep in the Coda, and near to the end of the Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece (1928-1940) The Master and Margarita, the two vagabonds Kiroviev and Behemoth, the former also being known as the Faggot, and the latter who is a dialectally hyper-active walking and talking large black cat, turn up at the…

I first saw the two photographic images of President Lincoln in a book about the Americal Civil War which I was given when I was about 12 years old, and the one speaks to the other. I collected toy soldiers as a boy. Fieldmarshall Rommell was my favourite. He was taller and unlike any of…
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Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.