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window Smelling of bacon. eggs. salt and sorrow" Yeah. Mornings of my life lulwlys this shallow.
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The tray is cleared, Along rvith the morning" And she walks home, f illed with Breaklast and Lon,ein-q.
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"Big Breakfast please, and I would like tea." "Take away or eating in?" The difference between both a mere canier bag, Or a potential hazard to the whole clan.
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Well, it was clear that if he didn't start talking, the kid would, and that would make him distinctly uncomfortable. And be damn annoying. And if the kid found out that he had found something special in this place, a small isolated bit of the garden where the others would ever come, then maybe he'd decide he'd never leave. "!Ve... all do, at some point or another." Cloth rustled, a sedated blue glistening briefly in the yellow of the lights radiation back from the complex as the young man leaned farther back beside the boy, head tilting into an arc and sending dark strands of his hair brushing against soft blades of grass beneath. The low sigh left his lips softly, quiet with the whisper of the words "you've just got to ride it through." "That's good enough for you to say. You've experienced it, haven't you?"
The boys face had turned fully towards his, the broad, indolent smile that had spread his lips through the passing years faltering a little, careful eyes watching his face. And there was the crux. "...experienced what? The pain of having something, something important, something that you can never quite replace, and having it ripped away from you? Haa, in those terms, then yes, I have experienced something." The younger boys lips twisted into a scowl, the ridiculously blue glancing over angrily to glare at him under that hat; but he let it roll off him, lips twisting into a smile, as he breathed deeper into the grass, the growing-scent. Clean, fresh, beautiful. New. A new start, a new life.
"You've at least experienced something. I keep waiting for my life to begin. From one family to the next, awesome- but for too short periods, I have no family, no identity. And until I start to actually become a son, then what can I say I am? I'm nothing." This kid was not going to go away, it seemed. At least, not without something more. Well, what was it he wanted? Groaning lightly, Gilbert stretched his head back, arms extending like a cat, before he had moved back to a sitting position, his movements clean as he leaned forward to stare at this damn kid. Short, scruffy blond hair, short, from what he could see from under a hideous blue cap; boy, or girl, he could not tell, although with the whole 'sailor' boy outfit he guessed he was trying to prove he was a boy. However successful that might be. He stifled a laugh, his lips forming a grin as he leaned back, eyes flicking down the boy once more. Well. "...Then, what do you think you are, now?" "Huh..? Didn't ljust say that? Stupid! Nothing, nothing at all, nout, weren't you listenin-" The boy gave a stifled yelp as Gilbert made sure his grip around the boys mouth was damn tight enough, the sky blue eyes flicking quickly from the hand to Gilberts annoyed gaze, before apparently missing the hint and trying to speak again. Damn idiot. Gilbert tightened his grip, grimace deepening as he used his other hand to grab the kids damn head and shake him a bit until he got the message. "Just shut up a minute, child- boy. Just what the hell do you think you are saying? You aren't living? Then just what the hell are you waiting for?" Feeling fabric quivering beneath him, Gilbert looked back to the boy under his hands, the childish face closed, devoid of the normally idiotically open expression. Openly naive, happy expression.
Guilt hit him like a hammer against his sternum, sucking out his breath, his chest chillingly cold and empty in the lack of air. The boy was quiet; big, blue eyes swimming - the fright in those tears didn't phase him, but the sudden shock and realization that seemed to twist the boys expression left him stinging as if he had been hit. Uncomfortable, he turned away, listening to the boy, for if he tried to make any more of that mouth, but no sound came out, the sounds of the night pervading the area with ease. ln all honesty, it didn't matter much anyway, because when he finally left, none of this emotional bull crap would matter, would it? The remainder of his eighteen years shrunk behind him; swallowed by the vast numbers of years of freedom that teased, like the small bright lights in the sky, sweetly, so close lo reality now.
The strained angle of his arm softened, his fingers relaxing, the sound of Charlie's boots scraping against dirt loud against the nights silence, until the boy had
successfully found his feet, and with a wobbling gaze that never quite left him, had found the path and beat down it. Against the small, yelping sounds as the boy struggled to keep upright, Gilbert's hand met the other back on his lap. He lowered himself back down to the grass slowly, eyes returning to the view - thoughts already looking forward again to his future. Blindly, without his notice, his eyes strained to settle on those pin points of light that had once punctuated the sky - Gilbert ignored
the strained tightness in his chest, and the foreboding that stretched and curled, warning that somehow, something had been done that was unchangeable, and wrong, and he let his eyes close, his consciousness fading into sleep.
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Eyes dulled coins, gasping fish, glutted to the gills with scouring sand.
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Review of Fosterine Guilt- KCL creative writins societv novel 2010 Fostering Guilt, the collaborative novel written by the Kings College creative writing society, is a type
of project that has not been undertaken by any other such groups, but has certainly paid off in its creation of a very readable story. The book tells the story of a group of people connected to an orphanage, "5t Aloysius"', in North London, that burned down when they were there as children, and the memories and emotions brought to the surface by its renovation when they are adults. The format of each chapter being told by a different character is effective in really giving each of the ten writers a chance to stand out, while the collaborative efforts of the society have prevented the novel from becoming fragmented, or turning into a collection of short individual stories. The stories told by the ex-orphanage members range from diary-like realism, detailing their adult lives, to fantasy style stories that openly reference Stephen King, along with some traditional fiction drama too. The novel, in its story-telling efforts, is generally effective, and quite enjoyable to read, which, given the difficulties often faced in this form of collaborative writing, is a remarkable achievement. The choice of allowing each author to have a chapter as their arena for expression is one that has
worked wellfor most of the novel. Although there are some points at which the storyline becomes incoherent or confusing, this may instead be more the product of a plot line that is intended to be complex, due to the nature of the story, and the importance of the confused memories and emotions of each of the orphan's stories. Having each author's contribution stand as an individual chapter has allowed the society to overcome some of the issues of writing a collaborative novel, and given equal weight to all members of the society involved. Although at times, this serves to highlight the most talented writers, the book is not fragmented, and the group editing techniques used by the society allowed not only for individual writers to stand out, but the voice of the Broup as a whole to be heard through the novel too. The fact that this book can is so unmistakably a novel (rather than a
collection of short stories) is indicative of the maturity and group awareness of the society that wrote it. They have been able to pulloff what many well-known authors have been unable to do successfully, in creating a collaborative novel that showcases different writers strengths while
maintaining a strong plot and cohesive voice too. The main strength of Fostering Guilt is that the plot line is such that it makes quite compelling
reading; I found myself racing through each chapter in order to find out what the next would reveal, and as in any good story, this made reading it all the more enjoyable. The fact that as a novel it was not overwhelmed by the collaborative form of its creation is a sign of its success as a novel. lf one ignores the fact that the book was written by a group of different writers, with their own distinctive styles and preferences for genres, then the distinction between each author and chapter is not
something that detracts from such a consuming storyline. Fostering Guilt, as a highly ambitious and unusual project for a group of students, and is one that
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chapter serves at times to allow those more comfortable with the commercial fiction style to stand out more, the fact that these writers were able to work together to create such a cohesive novel is a sign of the talent of the whole group. Aside from anything, the fact that the storyline, one that
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As before all of this I had lived as if in a submarine, where I would roam about and engage in minor skirmishes, and at that depth, victories were in abundance. I had fallen in love there with a beautiful voice, which emanated from the ivory white grill of an old ham radio, which was first my Mother then my Wife, as it nurtured then enthused me. Stepping out into the cold light of day though, if it is said 'we are so', we are so, and if it is said 'we could have been otherwise', then likewise, 'we could have been otherwise', symbolism is lost entirely.
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6-J6e thought snaps to anatomy, something I revere, and I'm sure that you do too, Fingertips, in particular, and the underside, where the knuckles fold, And how the muscles knit around it, and dark red spiced wine, tangible in the th roat,
And purple, a'nd a low humming noise. A slim paperback book, a bundle of sticks, Stick figures, I love you all. I would write you love-Poems, If I could bring myself to do so. But I find words don't weave themselves willingly into such clouds and tones.
It is not a useful thing for them to do. I need speech to be the hammering of nails, Details:
Tales of tracks, How you went there And back along the rails, And when some lonely hack, The writer, comes in from the hail, Tries to distract himself from a searing like brass Tacks and fails And you say "Oh God." Well, there are three reactions possible, when that happens: One might simply shut oneself out - close the door behind the eyes, and in the chest, But ours is a modest argument - too trivial to follow itself through When the conclusion Is sticky, and Involving uninviting splitting. Or we could immerse ourselves in God Ah, but the two of us broke up. Psychological suicide Nope, that key broke in the lock, so that door no longer opens. No, that won't do. Finally, then, sensation. Convince yourself that merely Having a feeling at all is reason enough. To be feeling is better than to not be feeling Cgntinued breath is thus subordinate To some vague positive impression, The crook of my elbow, and a sense of the shape Of someone else's head Amount to a vindication. Death and God are beaten by a half-suspicion Now proved half-true That maybe a face, split ear to ear But maybe by a smile, with eyes beaming at me, better than moons, Is justification for my wet shoes, a sense of guilt, the weather, And the fact that this is the best of it, and that I ouqht to be ashamed So I will tell you something of the way I feel. Only first I need to Kneel before the vanished Gods of trial and error And pray, like a machine, feigning sapience: "We know Feeling doesn't matter, 'I can no longer pretend that it is more
Than evolution's trick, A sorry thing. A poor device to trick this machine of ours
Into acting automatic." Yet even saYing that, I have something left to write so Something isn't right.
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People and landscapes are inextricable form one another. landscapes make people,
it is a question of how people make
As well as asking
how
landscapes. As Christopher
Tilley suggests in his essay 'A Phenomenology of Landscape Space, place, Landscape and Perception', "space is both constituted and constitutive". Here, the term space means
a social product "always centered in relatipn to human action"
(Tilley lgg4), From this
we can assert that the way landscape is perceived and represented is dependent on the culture it is created byt and in turn the architecture of these highly ,politicized' landscapes reinforces specific cultural ideologies.
In short, landscape becomes a form of
the "codification of history itself'(Pamela Stewart, Andrew Strathern, 2003).
Thus, landscape becomes involved in a process of individualizingpeople (Bender 2002), and separating people into recognizable categories produced by the society that 'owns, a
particular landscape. These categories, such as nature and culture, gender and class are introduced to individuals from birth. People are taught to negotiate space/place (Ibid), and from this develop notions of the self: the individual in relation to the landscape.
In this essay I will focus on the ideas of landscape in relation to gender, and the ways in which gender roles are re-enforced by humanized space, which are bognd up with ,,a set of relational places linked by paths, movements and narrative,' (Tilley lgg4).
The Western concept of landscape is said to be tied up with postmodern ideas of consumption. The notion that all things can be understood and logically concluded (Boyne 1998). western gaze "surveys" landscape (Bender 2002), ,,always behind, beyond, far offl' (Wylie 2004). Gaze, and conditions of gazing, therefore arise as an integral component for understanding why and how certain perceived cultural practices are constantly reinforced in relation to landscape: "conditions of gazing to the depths
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and folds of a immanent plane from which distinctive selves and landscapes arise and
with which they are always intertwined" (John Wylie).
I would like to explore these
notions of gazing and the construction of the gendered self in relation to Laura Mulvey's essay 'The Sexual Subject-A Screen Reader in Sexuality', where she explores the fascination of
film in relation to "pre-existing fascinations" with gaze (Mulvey Ig75).
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However, initially
I will explore
how gender roles are re-enforced by the very way in
which people inhabit landscape, with Bourdieu's 'The Berber House'.
"Inhabited space" creates "social Being-in-th"-*orld' (Tilley lgg4).This is the idea that the way in which people dwell in a landscape creates a sense of "thereness", "the self
in and of the world" (Ibid). Lr Bourdieu's study of 'The Berber House', he observers how the organization of space in the home mfurors the perceived disclosure of Being
opposition between the nature and culture (Ibid), and in turn, how preconceived gendered associations to these terms (male, culture/ female, nature) creates a division between the qq-4es
in the dwelling.
part of the house is also opposed to ttre higTJE-art as the feminine is to the masculine: besides the fact that the division of the work between the sexes, which is based upon the same principle of division as the organization of space, entrusts to the woman the responsibility of most objects which belong to the dark part of the house water-transport, and the carrying of wood and manure, for instance - the opposition between the upper part and the lower part reproduces within the space of the house the opposition set up between the inside and the outside. This is the opposition between male 4nd female space (Bourdieu 1973).
This could be taken as an example of how landscape becomes bound up with personal and cultural identity, and how that identity moulds the creation of a conscious ego aware
of their place in relation to their surrounds (Tilley lgg4). Dwelling "forms a primordial part of that which it is to be human, this necessarily requires a consideration of the body as the privileged vantage point from which the us back to the ides
of
world is apprehended" (Ibid). This brings
'the gaze': that "looking is the perceptual actualization of landscape
and self, of materialities and sensibilities" (Wylie 2004). This process of "actualization",
Wylie suggests, leads to the development of "hierarchical distinctions" betwoen subject and
object.It is this idea of hierarchy and subject/object gazethatLauraMulvey explores
in her essay 'The Sexual Subject-A Screen Reader in Sexuality'. Just as the construction
of space in the Berber house represents the "actualization" (Wyile 2004 )of what it is to be male and female in Berber culfure, Mulvey identifies in Western
film
a
"reinforcing of
pre-existing patterns of fascination" that reveal "socially established interpretations of sexual difference which controls images, erotic ways of looking and spectacle" (Mulvey
L975). Mulvey goes onto outline what she sees as the traditional role of women in film
we can ("passive raw material for the active gaze of man" (Ibid)). Using Mulvey's thesis' people as the process of gazing upon a landscape, to that of "looking at other
liken
and in the objects" (Ibid). Both involve the same "ordering" process (Wylie 2004)' a "sexual Western films that Mulvey studied in her essay, this order is characterizedby
(Mulvey lg15).She outlines that "pleasure in looking has been split between parallel between active/male and passive/female." (Ibid). This sets up an interesting
imbalance,,
western mate/femal e 'gaTe' and
of 'ownership'
the 'gaze' that is caste over landscape. A similar notion
appears to be in play. The ownef of the gaze belonging to the ideological
gaze is not white western male. In films most common form, this role of the active male just played out, but also heightened' Mulvey references Lacan's 'Mirror Stage' as the
human body, moment when humans first grasp notions of likeness and recognition, "the presence of the the relationship between the human form and its surroundings, the visible
vital for the person in the world" (Ibid), and ultimately forms concepts of ego, which are understanding and building of landscapes. With this in mind, Mulvey assess
film
as a
tool
ones for furthering west-centric, sexist modes of identification of the self in relation to
surroundings.
to that As the spectator identifies with the main male protagonist, he projects his look on coincides as protagonist male of his like, his screen surrogate, so that the power of the with the active power o1 the erotic look, both giving a satisfying sense of omnipotence...the active male figure demands a three-dimensional space corresponding to that of the mirror-recognition in which the alienated subject internalized his own (Mulvey) representation of this imaginary existence. He is a figure in a landscape'" a tool to Mulvey selects specific examples of films to demonstrate this idea of cinema as the notion encode a patriarchal system. Focusing on Alfred Hitchcock films, she explores
such that male dominance is asserted by institutionalized ideas of power. In films
as
'Vertigo' the lead protagonist will have a 'respectable' job, (in this case a lawyer' normally followed by a policeman) instantly provoking a "process of identification processes of 'ordering' associated with ideological correctness" (Ibid). Here we see this of right (male) again being played out, not just ordering by sex, but ordering by notions (female). Although in Vertigo, the male protagonist at times veers from what
or wrong
he is still placed would be considered normal 'heroic' behavior (obsession and stalking), as a within a "symbolic ordef" (Ibid) where his actions are backed not only by his status
male, and his legal right, but by his gaze that is shared by the v
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a gaze that results
in a sense of ownership, in accordance with how western people view landscape (Bender 2002).
Parallels can be drawn between Mulvey's and Bourdieu's observations in regards to
'what it is to be masculine' in relation to oneself in a landscape. In Bourdieu's Berber House, the opposition of male and female is in direct correlation with the opposition of
public and privet space, and the idea that to be male/female means to have different
with landscape "Thus, the house is organized according to a set of homologous oppositions: fire: water; cooked: raw; high: low; light: shadow...male: associations
female...culture: nature" (Bourdieu 1973). The male, therefore, is afforded the right to "gaze" (Wylie 2004) upon public landscape, to be a part of public life, and to negotiate himself in this context. Whereas the female is offered a much smaller internal landscape
to navigate. Just as Mulvey observers the male protagonist in western film as a vehicle
for the representation of institutional systems that separate the sexes, the Berber House too displays this perceived divide between male and female being played out in the very fabric of humanized space. These two examples, from very different ethnographic sources, are useful for exploring gendered relationships a representation
with land, and displaying how space - be it a built environment, or
of life on a screen
- cannot be removed
from human action. The very
way people interact with land, and view it, is constructed by specific social frameworks. Therefore landscapes are "not just views, but intimate encounters" (Bender 2002). However, the conclusions I have drawn concerning gender hierarchy as a simple subject/object
- nature/culture divide are perhaps too simple.
Perhaps what should be
explored in relation to landscape are "the conditions of possibility of gazing upon landscape" (Wylie 2004). Wylie explores the idea that landscapes are in fact not cultural constructs, nor do they belong to the object or the subject. He suggests that landscape, in
fact, "adheres within processes that subtend and afford these terms" (Ibid). Wylie articulates the endless complexities that are involved with the relationship between people and landscape, and wishes to "move away from the notion that landscape may be regarded primarily as a visual representation of cultural meaning" as this acts as "a veil
symbols and significations enshrouding a physical mantle" (Ibid). As Bender suggests
of
humans' interaction within landscapes are part of a "negotiated process, one open to question and with potential for change". With this in mind, what Wylie seem to be suggesting is that the very accounts of the social constructions of nature acts as a
"valorization of processes of discursive construction" that tends to "reptoduce a series of hierarchical distinctions between subject and object, culture and nature, the 'material' and the 'meaningful' ". Wylie wishes to move towards,a different conceptual basis for understanding culture in relation to landscape, whibh is not rooted in cultural bias. (Wylie 2004). This leads into a whole new discussion about the very manner in which peoples
relationship to landscape should be articulated.
Bibliography Bender,
8., "Landscape
Berg,2002
and politics" in The material culture reader by Buchli, Victor,
Bourdieu, P., "The Berber House" in Rules and Meanings : The Anthropology of Everyday Knowledge : selected readings by Douglas, Mary, penguin Educati,on, 1973 Boyne, Roy, The Art of the Body in the Discourse of Postmodernity, Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, Bryan S. Turner, (editors), The Body: social process and cultural Theory, Sage Publications Limited, London, 1988
Mulvey, Laura, The Sexual Subject, A Screen Reader in Sexuality, Routledge, London, New York, 1975 Stewart, Pamela, Strathern, Andrew, Landscape, Memory and History, Anthropological Perspectives, Pluto Press, London, 2003
Tilley, Christopher, A phenomenology of landscape: places, paths, and monuments, Berg, 1994
Wyile, John, Depths and Folds: On Landscape and the Gazing Subject, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, 2004
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She had a talent for killing off his words as they faltered from his lip trembles and throat quivers, not shooting them dead down or violent crushed, but smothering them with unresponsive pillow silence lowered down on his desperate lips with a word. He longed for violence for anger he prayed for her to just slap him kick him anything to show the blood still pumped in red river arteries that there was some life at least in her. He needed that life to affirm his own and every drip drenched wetness in her soaked him to the very bones of his self confidence, doused the little sparks that he tried to light from the damp little tinderbox of his words. lf her blood was on fire then his could be too, but a damp squib he stayed in her passionless silence. He felt the responsibility of every second of it and was desperate to cry just to fill the air with his pathetic sound sobs his wailing unbridled, but he didn't for fear of having to explain it to her, or, tar worse, for fear the at she would not listen to them, would sigh deeply, turn another page and let the cries sink slow absorbed into the still and viscous rapid air stifled and suffocated.
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Her book was caught between their bodies And authentically discarded, And a mild honest victo'ry was recorded later on As resuming it, she says "Where was I?" Answered by reflection.
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