2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Thursday (continued) As Ren briskly walks to the teaching room, he can feel himself covered in sweat, which is starting to go unpleasantly cold. The sweat is probably itself highly alcoholic. His hair is … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Thursday Mountain ranges form and disintegrate while Ren sleeps. Finally he opens his eyes a fraction. His vision is tenebrous, obscured by non-philosophical gunk, while his brain is quietly telling him, ‘You’re not going … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Wednesday… continued Ren knows nowhere chic in Grayvington. He’s not sure there is anywhere chic in Grayvington, but then he’s only been here a few months. He tells the taxi to take them to … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Wednesday… continue It’s getting hard to talk about anything now, as the two time lords have had a little too much Tardis fuel to drink. They’ve resumed battle, and are getting louder and louder, … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Wednesday… continued ‘He will attempt to re-program you, you know,’ says Compton. ‘Soon you’ll be pressured to write a grant with him. He will induct you into the dark arts of grant-writing. He’ll be … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Wednesday… continued Half an hour later taxis arrive, drinks are hastily finished, and they head off to a Chinese restaurant called Taste of Dragon. This isn’t a place they’ve ever been to before, but … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Wednesday… continued Ren decides that this is a suitable time to talk about the TITE because none of the Department’s Continentalists are here (they are, of course, staying away because today’s talk has been … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Wednesday… continued Anyway, all this, or rather none of it, is going through Ren’s head as he approaches the staff club bar. What’s in his head is the intent to purchase a beer. Which … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 4 Wednesday Ren approaches the bar at the staff club. The weekly departmental seminar, where visiting guest speakers come to give a talk, has just finished, and as seminar organiser he’s glad to see the … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 3 Friday… continued ‘Same here, ‘says Douglas. ‘I wouldn’t have voted for Michael Foot, but you won’t catch me ever voting for the Conservatives.’ ‘I voted for Blair,’ says Miles. ‘As did anyone with any … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 3 Friday The Lorenzos stumble out of the Psychology building in the late afternoon, after finishing a fairly fruitless session trying to work on their TITE group project, due at the end of the semester. … Continue reading →
2000-01 Semester 1 Week 3 Tuesday …continued. ‘What exactly are “inclusive practises”?’ Ren had asked at one point. ‘Creating neutral spaces where students can interact with diversity’, says Lenora Helminth, or, to give her her Ren-name, ‘Vyshinsky’. ‘What does … Continue reading →
I’m repeating the serialisation of my first novel for those readers who didn’t catch it the first time around — here’s the first section: 2000-01 Semester 1 Week 3 Tuesday Ren Christopher, a new member of the Philosophy department … Continue reading →
