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“This picture and the even more extraordinary one of the fairies on page 465 are the two most astounding photographs ever published.” (The Strand magazine, 1920, on the Cottingley Fairies)
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Apr01

“This picture ...

posted by rtkxh

‘Department of Great Lies : Annual Report:   January 2016’. There can be no doubt that the fairy community is in need of another Great Lie to ensure its invisibility for the 21st century. The successful strategy employed in the early 20th century, now part of our legend, in which we made...

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“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.” (Tennyson)
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Mar31

“A lie that is...

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The brown package dropped on the doormat with a satisfying thud. He’d been waiting for some time and had become irritable and testy with his beautiful wife. This didn’t bother her. It was a price she was willing to pay. And in turn, she had exactly what he wanted in a woman: high cheekbones...

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“I’m fine.”   (everyday lie)
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Mar30

“I’m fine.” (everyda...

posted by rtkxh

  It’s lovely to see you too. Ages, I know. Oh yes, I’m fine thanks. No really, it’s nothing. A little tired, maybe. Nothing more.   My life is splintering. I’m slipping through the gaps. The interstitial places, the spaces where meaning vanishes. I’m cracking up.   Work’s fine...

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“Oh what a tangled web we weave…. When first we practise to deceive!” (Walter Scott)
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Mar29

“Oh what a tan...

posted by rtkxh

  Sonnet, with tangled web I’m looking for somewhere to lay my head before the dark. Your hand blocking out the white noise until all I hear is beats of blood charging around my body against the slow boom of your heart. It’s not easy, this lies’ thing, but it’s not hard either, and at...

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“Who lies for you will lie against you.” (Bosnian proverb)
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Mar28

“Who lies for ...

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  Writer: Charlotte Brookes Artist/Filmmaker: Mark Noad

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