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Just had to boost off about how derivative most art-student writing is. "Oh these dusty photos of the old library where I used to work"; images of moth-eaten taxidermy subjects; ponderings which are admitted to be 'pointless' - 'oh but it's all so lovely.' Yes, well done on enjoying life. But it's not work. It's not DOING anything. it's just self-indulgent crap.

Please note that the above venting is largely due to my self-doubt at not having studied English, even though I love it so, and worrying whether I will ever reattain that luxurious richly-referenced feel to my work that I once deluded myself I had.

I went with science so I'd have a huge mountain of material to ramble through with my thesaurus and storytelling crafts, and because all great work is about finding out the truths about life.

But because I studied sciences, I'm going to really push that more viscerality is needed, more honesty, more truth, more dynamism, in English and journalism work. And hope that I can rechannel the artistry into my own work.

 Do you really want to be like this?! : http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

http://richarddawkins.net/articles/824-postmodernism-disrobed