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Notes on the niche pastime of thinking about death
A lyric essay about a lifetime spent pondering the imponderable
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Niall O'Sullivan
8
Mastodon is my mood board rather than my echo chamber
A note of hope, a note of caution and the return of my clock card poems
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Niall O'Sullivan
5
On quitting Twitter to write my opinions in a weighty, leather tome.
A silly story, not a blog
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Niall O'Sullivan
3
Notes from an English Seaside Break
Class treachery, sewage, Mulhern.
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Niall O'Sullivan
Rain: Live Blog
The real story, of course, is the rain. Its shift from catharsis to ordeal. The lawns remember their plushness. The reservoirs draw their stores and…
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Niall O'Sullivan
Violence in Poetry
Can poetry use violence in similar ways to other media?
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Niall O'Sullivan
Football at Shatner's or Diner from Heat?
The ideology of non-ideological spaces
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Niall O'Sullivan
3
How playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (sorta) helped me to procrastinate less
...and why all tools must eventually break
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Niall O'Sullivan
4
Can Substack save me from Twitter?
I am exhausted and numbed by Twitter. Can rekindling my blogging help me to put the bird site to bed?
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Niall O'Sullivan
9
6:23
A bad workman always fetishises his tools
Do good writers need to hate the act of writing?
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Niall O'Sullivan
on replacing the angel and devil on my shoulders with a gargoyle and butterfly
No matter how often you find yourself feeling at one with the fabric of the cosmos, you’ll still end up nuts-deep in a dichotomy a few hours later.
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Niall O'Sullivan
the tap
A poem written in the Killer Zen style of Todd Moore
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Niall O'Sullivan
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