But
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But

Life Isn't Like That, Is It?

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eBook - ePub

But

Life Isn't Like That, Is It?

About this book

Life's stories are always prone to disruption and digression, thwarting the neat storybook narrative we love so much.

Almost all of our stories follow the same basic pattern: beginning, middle, end: exposition, action and climax. It's a neat and tidy way of telling a story. But life's not like that, is it? Life is not neat and tidy, it doesn't obey the rules. Life's stories—like the stories told here in But, personal and impersonal, historical and contemporary—are punctuated by disruption, derailment, and digression.

Stories where the good guys lose. Stories where the bad girls win. Stories that just stop in the middle. Stories that fizzle out or simply never get going. Stories that don't make sense. Stories that start where they should end and end where they start. Stories that go round in a cyclical loop, forever. Unfinished stories. Unstarted stories. Stories that stutter and mumble, that cough and splutter.

That's what we have here in this book: real stories, that do all of the above. That's why this book is called But. Because the but is there to disrupt the easy normality of the way we tell our stories. This book is a collection of stories about real lives, real people, and real life. Stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous, and unplanned.

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Information

Publisher
PM Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9798887440958
Edition
0
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art & Politics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Cover Blurb
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Disrupters No 1—Welfare State International
  8. Lines
  9. The Iranian Wedding Pianist
  10. Adrian Henri’s Funeral
  11. Art, Yachts and Crayons
  12. The Decisive Moment
  13. Ziggy Visits Sabden
  14. Perfect Story Structure
  15. Disrupters No 2—Andy Roberts
  16. Jah Wobble, Davey Graham and Hoovers
  17. Dorothy Wordsworth’s Socks
  18. Leeds, Leeds, Leeds
  19. Money, Money, Money
  20. Motivational Sports Quotes
  21. Likely Lads
  22. Writing
  23. On the Road
  24. Two Blackbirds
  25. Disrupters No 3—Dick Witts and Louise Alderman
  26. Hmmm 
 Talking to Danbert
  27. An Activist’s First Duty Is to Have Fun
  28. So It Goes
  29. Comic Sans Walks into a Bar
  30. Upside Down
  31. On the Bus
  32. Lieteller
  33. What the Folk?
  34. Disrupters No 4—Crass
  35. Gimme Some Truth
  36. Marginalia
  37. Pissing It Down(In Praise of English Rain)
  38. Shhh
  39. The Guitar
  40. Disrupters No 5—Lou Watts and Alice Nutter
  41. But I Digress
  42. From A to
  43. Liminal Space
  44. B
  45. Storyboard
  46. When Two Lads Meet
  47. Some Words You Can Use Instead of But
  48. 4’33»
  49. These Hills Are—
  50. Wonder
  51. With Hidden Noise
  52. Disrupters No 6—Casey Orr
  53. Inger and the Lucky Dog
  54. Message from Woody Guthrie
  55. The Devil’s Interval
  56. Hollywood Ageing Cream
  57. Hope
  58. Good Idea, Bad Idea
  59. Disrupters No 7—Rod Dixon
  60. Making It Up as You Go Along
  61. That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It
  62. A Lovely Mess
  63. A Man Walks into a Library
  64. Weather Events
  65. Epilogue
  66. About the Author