nothing in the rulebook
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Category: Professor Wu’s Rulebook
Opinion pieces; blog posts; articles
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After reviewing Nick Brooks’s excellent book, Sexy Haiku, we’ve been reading and re-reading this extraordinarily erotic collection over and over, picking out the haiku that just stay with you, leaving you turning them over in your head throughout the day. Indeed, we’ve become a little obsessed with just how good this book is. In…
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When the Nothing in the Rulebook team were asked to review Nick Brooks’s Sexy Haiku – a collection of haiku that follow one man’s relationships – we did the only sensible thing and carried the book with us on a romantic trip to Paris. After all, nothing quite says ‘city of love’, as reading haikus that…
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I think I am, actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand. I do not have tiny hands. That is where I draw a line in the sand. Look at these hands. Are they small hands? I’m honoured to have the greatest temperament that anybody has. I have to start…
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If you’ve always suspected there’s a novel in you, one writing project could help you get it on to paper in just 30 days. Founded in 1999, NaNoWriMo (short for National Novel Writing Month), is an internet hub built for budding writers. Participants agree to start and complete a novel of 50,000 words or more…
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We live in an age where author’s incomes are collapsing to abject levels; when we are forced to work ever harder for lower pay, often holding down multiple jobs to supplement our creative endeavours. This is, of course, not necessarily unique to the writers of the neoliberal era – where profit and money are prioritised…
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The Siamese Fighting Fish known as Bruce Lee had no idea he would find himself at the centre of a global conversation about fish depression. When he woke up for his morning fish flakes on Monday morning, he was shocked, perplexed and, yes, a little anxious and depressed to see his shining blue face and…
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In this month’s illustrated column from Dougie Dodds, the artist adjusts to student life in Cornwall.
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Looking somewhere between an electric circuit diagram and a Mondrian painting, subway – or underground – maps are exemplars of ways to present difficult information in an accessible, visually engaging and, crucially, easy to understand, way. Londoners may well be familiar with the story of Harry Beck’s famous ‘diagram’ of the city’s underground system in…
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If there is one feature of humankind that clearly defines our civilisation, it is, perhaps, the written word. All of human imagination can be found within the walls of our libraries – the perfect sanctuaries for books – as written language has emerged as the perfect means of cataloguing our thoughts, our discourse and our…
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