The Sock Puppet
I struggle with my identity in the New Statesman diary this week.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 11:02 AM
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- Name:Bryan Appleyard
A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
16 Comments:
At February 22, 2007 11:42 AM,
Gordon McCabe said…
Interesting article. I met the Bournemouth Magazine Journalism students the other week, and a very pleasant bunch they are too. It was great to see a group of people totally immersed in their work, and visibly enjoying it.
At February 22, 2007 12:03 PM,
Neil Forsyth said…
Hypnopompic. Good word. I like it.
At February 22, 2007 12:11 PM,
Chippy said…
Enlightening but frightening. It made me think that I might be a sock puppet too.
At February 22, 2007 12:13 PM,
Gordon McCabe said…
Robert Louis Stevenson used hypnogogic and hypnopompic dream experiences as the raw material of his novels. And he wrote 'The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and My Hyde' in Bournemouth. How's that for a link?
At February 22, 2007 12:57 PM,
Sophie King said…
You failed to mention your other existence as a revered failed intellectual.
At February 22, 2007 1:48 PM,
Brit said…
People sometimes ask me about Buddhism. I reply in depth and at length. Very good.
I stand to be corrected, but I thought a 'sock puppet' was where the blogger or columnist poses as a reader and then praises himself in this fiendish guise. Thus making it look like he has fans.
None of those here of course...
At February 22, 2007 2:32 PM,
Andrew said…
You're Bryan Appleyard, you big eejit.
At February 22, 2007 3:27 PM,
Amanda M said…
The word is hypnopimplock.
At February 22, 2007 3:27 PM,
Amanda M said…
The word is hypnopimplock
At February 22, 2007 5:42 PM,
Amanda Marcotte said…
I'd hate you to think I was one of those wasters of words they being precious and not to be thrown about wastefully like some useless human waste, anyway what I pbviously mean being so sorry about the double post earlier. Anyway I'm not sure I had the right word hynopimplock or maybe it is the right word but not instead of your one if you see what I mean, meaning you might have been right but so might I but in a different context. Anyway seeing as you seem to be a bit of a fan of mine here's a sentence from my own blog where I use my own words as opposed to yours if you see what I mean.
"The ?I?m pro-choice but I think abortion is wrong? thing crops up a lot in these discussions, and while I understand the urge to feel like a complex person that lays behind it, I seriously don?t get why people think that it helps anything to hand wring about how terrible abortion is if you?re supporting the right to have one."
I'm not sure where my writing is done the better if you see what I mean as in there or here- I think it might be upon me in an incumbent way to up my style a bit here as people might have underestimated what it is I'm capable of there(or here), and that might even include me!
At February 22, 2007 8:38 PM,
Rebel with Cause said…
I think Amanda was struggling somehow. The word that come to mind while reading the above was hypnopillock.
At February 22, 2007 8:41 PM,
Rebel with Cause said…
Not only following Clarkson to Top Gear but now also going in AAGill's footsteps and naming restaurants where you eat.
Bryan, was that lunch paid for by the proprietors or you mention them for free?
At February 22, 2007 8:47 PM,
Rebel with Cause said…
'my favourite character in my favourite TV show' - sloppy writing or (over)emphasis? Or lost for words?
Who are you?
At February 22, 2007 8:53 PM,
Rebel with Cause said…
'Identity used to inhere in our bodies.' Not in UK, as for a sum of £2 years ago I changed my name. Then I got married to someone who had previously had his name changed by Deed Poll.
How many names is that? And, what of our child? Is her name real then?
Who are we?
At February 23, 2007 6:53 AM,
james higham said…
...The scuffle had reached a climax with the real PH visiting the fake PH, who, in a state of panic, phoned Guido to say that "Peter Hitchens has just cycled up my drive"...
Your mind never ceases to amaze me, Bryan.
At February 23, 2007 7:10 AM,
Bryan Appleyard said…
Favourite...favourite is okay, Rebel, a mounting cadence. And, James, it's not my mind that did really happen.
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