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If Laureates wrote techi reviews!
Shakespeare on IPAD 3 Shall I compare thee to the release of IPAD 2 last Summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: And every fair from fair sometime declines, And competitors as nature...
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Buoy – poem
When you are faltering in a stormy sea and the torrent of waves thrash you under their weight I will not leave you whitewashed I will always be your buoy. Anchored to the depth of the unknown my root...
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I have become Friedrich Nietzsche – prose poem
With one foot in imagination and the big toe of the other reluctantly dipping the surface of reality, by narcissistic friends who are lost in pomposity or float endlessly in the walls of an abyss of...
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Lilith history’s first feminist
lilith, a photo by doodle_juice on Flickr. If you were a little kid in middle east you would remember when your Mum and Dad would say if you were naughty Lulu would take you away? Well here is her...
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Mustard field
Mustard field, a photo by doodle_juice on Flickr. I took this picture of a mustard field on my regular commute to London. There was a long cycle lane along this field. It crossed many fields and went...
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Yours truly (poem)
gohar, a photo by doodle_juice on Flickr. Yours truly You left with tears staring through the window came back and stole a glance through the bars and smiled You watched me as I played, the four-year...
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Leaving Moon city-autobiographical flash fiction
maltabus, a photo by doodle_juice on Flickr. A day earlier in Abadan our passports and tickets were ready for collection. Dad spoke to this guy in the ticket office who dropped the word OK in every...
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Ode to a Nightingale – John Keats
John Keats. 1795–1821 Ode to a Nightingale MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and...
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The Seafarer
ANONYMOUS (8TH CENTURY MODERN VERSION BY EZRA POUND) May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon, how I in harsh days Hardship endured oft. Bitter breast-cares have I abided, Known on...
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Veronique
This is a short film that demonstrates the power of good screen writing. Filed under: art, Film review, Stories Tagged: Art, Arts, Culture, Film Review, Iranian, Persian, ramintork, فارسی, هنر,...
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Shipping Forecast And Gale Warnings (short story)
Humber, Thames. Southeast veering southwest 4 or 5, occasionally 6 later. Thundery showers. Moderate or good, occasionally poor. Let me fill your glass, and make it level with mine my dear friend. Here...
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Tim Minchin’s Storm the Animated Movie
Filed under: art, Art blogs, Cartoons, Faith, Stories Tagged: Art, Arts, Cartoons, Humour, Iran, Iranian, Persian, ramintork, فارسی, هنر, Video, Visual Arts, ایران, رامین ترک
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Erotic Art made from Hafiz poem
erotic2, a photo by doodle_juice on Flickr. حال دل با تو گفتنم هوس است حال دل با تو گفتنم هوس است خبر دل شنفتنم هوس است طمع خام بین که قصه فاش از رقیبان نهفتنم هوس است شب قدری چنین عزیز و شریف با تو...
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Ground Zero (This was a Junot Díaz pastiche)
Ground Zero Not many people know this but many Iranians mourned 9/11. Yeb you heard we stood out in the cold and had a candle vigil. We knew what it felt like to be zero grounded. And guess what? Our...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (analysis)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Oscar (protagonist) obsessed with sci-fi comic and fantasy books, has a quest for true love. He has to deal with identity issues; He is a...
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Extract from ‘The pomegranate garden’ (my unfinished novel)
A small spider was trying to crawl out of the basin. It slipped. With tenacity it climbed again. Twenty years ago she would have been terrified and would have asked him to kill it. Six months before...
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Astro-Historian (flash fiction)
astro, a photo by doodle_juice on Flickr. I have a confession to make: I am not human. I discovered it by accident. I came very close to death a couple of times and inexplicably survived. Like the...
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George Orwell – The Freedom of the Press – Orwell’s Proposed Preface to...
I learnt a valuable lesson from my 19 year old daughter recently. “Dad, sometimes a very precious part of a Book is in the author’s forward or the preface”, she said. Take Nabokov’s witty forward for...
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‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg (with subtitles) – HQ
With the release of the film “Kill Your Darlings” there has been a rejuvenated interest in the Beat generation poets. Ginsberg is as shocking today as he was in his own time. Filed under: Culture,...
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The wisest person ( my short fiction for today)
So this young polymath feels empty inside and having achieved so many things that he only kept to himself he fell into the dark abyss of an existential crisis. A friend suggested that he goes on a...
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