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Aged 27 (human years), Ben Leto lives just a short walk from Karl Marx's giant head in Highgate, North London. As an English graduate of St Andrews University, he there benefited from both tutorials with the very encouraging Professor Douglas Dunn, and a

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Creative Writing > Essays Essays: Why we write: 127 of 166

Writing is a waste of time. It's now been six months since I quit my former full time job in education. Though I don't miss the dizzying heights of Bloomsbury - the endless tedium of stuffing envelopes, telling cold sales callers to go away, or pretending to get excited about a new project that could send a woodlouse back in...
Health & Fitness > Nicotine Dependence Confessions of a smoker: 27 of 30

I should have known. I'm a veteran quitter. As Mark Twain once famously observed, "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." But each and every time I always seem to forget what a horrible experience it is. Oh sure, it starts off all pats on backs and vigorous noddi...