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What happened to telling stories?

By Dave | Published: November 21, 2009
I’ve been think­ing a lot recently about how we tell stor­ies. I enjoy writ­ing, and it is obvi­ous to me that the inven­tion of the writ­ten word, and more spe­cific­ally the inven­tion of the print­ing press and mass media, has been more or less the most fun­da­mental revolu­tion in the his­tory of what we now [...]
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Isabel’s Weekend.

By Dave | Published: November 18, 2007
I recently wrote a Span­ish assign­ment that I was pretty happy with. Here’s the Span­ish, and a translation: Isa­bel cam­in­aba por la calle. Era una chica guapa; tenía el pelo rubio, y los ojos azules, como el azul del mar medi­ter­ráneo. Sus labios bril­laban, y cada hombre que pasaba por delante de ella acababa mirán­dola. [...]
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Fresher’s Flu

By Dave | Published: September 29, 2007
I have, inev­it­ably, caught the infam­ous non­des­cript ill­ness that affects most fresh­ers in their second week at uni. Never mind! I’ve been hav­ing an awsome time here at Leeds, met some great new mates and had some incred­ible nights out. I’ve also star­ted my course, which is shap­ing up to be pretty cool, although I’d [...]
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