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	<title>An Unreliable Witness &#187; Holes in time</title>
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	<description>Frequently pretentious since 1971. Clearly ambiguous since 2000. Completely and utterly incomprehensible since 2006. Warning: may contain synonyms.</description>
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		<title>Three times removed</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2011/09/20/three-times-removed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding myself surrounded by index cards containing intricate data, pockmarked for posterity, scratchings of meaningless figures totalling a sum I can’t even compute, and endless screeds of information doused in the moisture from both loving and unloving sighs, I begin the task of burning the evidence they reveal. One hundred and twenty index cards every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Words is an anagram of Sword</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2011/08/15/words-is-an-anagram-of-sword/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But a sword can cut off your face, whereas words can only be tattooed onto it. A sword can be plunged into a stone for a nascent king to remove. Words can be written on the stone to warn the king that what he is doing is impossible to mere flesh, and therefore he should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bus, taxi, car, pedestrian</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2009/09/15/bus-taxi-car-pedestrian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bid to resuscitate my pathetic, dwindling creativity — or rather, repeatedly kick its body in the stomach as it lies on the floor, pleading for mercy — I am attempting to discover whether, via the miracle of sleek ‘n’ sexy mobile technology, I can write something eloquent and profound whilst ‘on fhe move’, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Somewhere, late afternoon, before sunset</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2009/03/01/somewhere-late-afternoon-before-sunset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synchronise watches. Just nod if you’re synchronised. Okay. Good. So. I think we could be there by midnight, if we leave now. I really want to be there by midnight. Midnight, there or thereabouts. Depending on where we end up. Yes, I like draining my last drink dry come the witching hour, then falling into [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seven fifty-four six degrees cloudy</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2009/02/16/seven-fifty-four-six-degrees-cloudy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2009/02/16/seven-fifty-four-six-degrees-cloudy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop right there. Stop whilst I can feel the creeping tendrils of new life in my fingers, the working week’s first surging and rippling in my whitened knuckles. I stop myself. I always do, always. I have to stop myself. I cannot be any other way. If I exist for only one reason, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>One longer later</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/12/31/one-longer-later/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/12/31/one-longer-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you still with me? You’re still with me, right? I’ll be keeping you in mind — always in mind — as I take your gift and all the pieces of the person it contains. Grateful, that’s me. Grateful, for always and for everything. I’ll pull the anonymous package from the toothless but black-brushed jaws [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Six forty-eight sixteen degrees sunny intervals</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/06/24/six-forty-eight-sixteen-degrees-sunny-intervals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/06/24/six-forty-eight-sixteen-degrees-sunny-intervals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just went to see if the pair of cooing, lovesick pigeons who have been renting space on my balcony were up with the lark. As I am. When did I start envying birds that so many consider to be little more than troublesome vermin, riddled with disease and pestilence? I just went to see [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seven seventeen fourteen degrees overcast</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/06/11/seven-seventeen-and-fourteen-degrees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/06/11/seven-seventeen-and-fourteen-degrees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unreliablewitness.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t tell me that I don’t know what I’m doing. I know precisely what I’m doing. I am grabbing the moment, seizing it with both hands, twisting and strangling it until it lies limp, cold and unmoving in my arms. These few words are the deliberate, conscious act of taking an inward breath, whilst I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>First day, last day, every day</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/03/05/first-day-last-day-every-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/03/05/first-day-last-day-every-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. So you wake up. You wake up, you yawn, you scratch yourself. You peel sleep crystals from the corners of your eyes. You check that your body is generally intact, as you left it the night before, before it was tossed this way and that in dreamtime or nightmare hours. You run your fingers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cannot locate signal</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/01/08/cannot-locate-signal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2008/01/08/cannot-locate-signal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went looking for the cracked, faded and distant voice that I knew lurked somewhere in the jagged landscape, hidden unheard between distorted peaks and hushed valleys. I held the sleek, electronic seashell to my ear, and behind the tempestuous waves I could hear the faint promise of a silent sea of sound, stretching as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Melodrama in nineteen syllables</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/09/07/melodrama-in-nineteen-syllables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/09/07/melodrama-in-nineteen-syllables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Many happy non-returns</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/07/17/many-happy-non-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/07/17/many-happy-non-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m woken by weak morning sun and even weaker mourning tea — are you still drinking green? — accompanied by a slice of mouldy, putrid birthday cake that oozes and spews rancid cream. Freshly knifed, but rotting from the inside out because it was left to gather dust for months in preparation for this tender [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Footprints end</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/07/06/footprints-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/07/06/footprints-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stopped in my tracks by words, by a fanfare of blasts and horns and cries and the faintest of whispers. Syllables must, sentences must not. Out, damned spot. Out, damned semi-colon. I remember walking through an alley somewhere off the North Pole. I’m sure it was the North Pole. There is a road that leads [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Solstice</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/06/21/solstice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/06/21/solstice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She tells me that today is the longest day. Tells me too as if it is a conspiratorial secret, as if it would make me want to leap up and embrace her, kiss the child-like grin that places ripples of echoes of grins further up on her rounded cheeks. Wreathed in smiles. Please don’t stop [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nothing here but clinker</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/06/15/nothing-here-but-clinker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/06/15/nothing-here-but-clinker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picking through debris. Sifting detritus. Sieving and shaking the coal from the clinker, and then I’m back. An inward child sat cross-legged in the middle of the high-walled back yard. Regressing and regretting. Embracing the past for fear it might reach out and strangle if I don’t take its hands in mine. “Did I do [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Of tunnel visions</title>
		<link>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/03/15/of-tunnel-visions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/03/15/of-tunnel-visions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This white wall. I stare down this runway, psyching myself up. Concentrate. Think. One thing at a time. No more than one. There’s no rush. Yet there is, because I have been here long enough. This film was a disaster that became a blockbuster and has now become the most tedious epic ever to grace [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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