We learnt a number of rhetorical devices at the end of last term, but after some extensive googling I have found some alternative definitions. Epistrophe – A particular type of catastrophe that involves pissing yourself.e.g. ‘One man with wet pants, knows the woes of a thousand with wet pants.’ Anadiplosis – A herbivore dinosaur with […]
On the eight hour journey (god blast engineering works on Sundays) from Cornwall to Home, we were joined at Newton Abbot by an interesting pair. I didn’t see them at first, what alerted me to their presence was smell. Smell that wafted back from their table to ours like an evil Bisto wisp, an acrid […]
On Saturday, I bought my first surfboard. I went to Newquay with my amigo and bought a seven foot six mini-mal. It has four blue stripes running from tip to tale a blue star right about where I have to put my face. It is beautiful. So this weekend in relatively mild January weather I […]
There are times when you feel life just can’t get any better, the sun shines brightly, you get a lovely email from an old friend and then you write a paragraph that is so good, it ought to be engraved on a gold bar and kept by the British Library in their extra-specially-good section. And […]
Excitement is in the air. I spoke to my big sister yesterday. ‘Guess what is starting tonight’ she said. I being submerged in the world of writing, films, research and the like, am not sure. ‘Dunno?’ ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ she said with a flourish Oh shit. I am, I’m very sad to say, susceptible to […]
Jen S. Wight 