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About meI'm a Criminologist (LSE) + writer about true crimes that have a certain twist and character that really proves the old adage from Mark Twain that 'Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.'
My recent writing/reading involves the supernatural - began as a sceptic (US: Skeptic) but the evidence I personally encountered was overwhelming in support of the continuing existence of a 'supernatural essence', some form of residual memory.
I am constantly surprised by what reality throws up.
Research is an adventure.
I have a great love of localities and the minutia of village life, customs, memories of the elders & lingusitic aspects of changing cultural traditions. I love comedy and have been fortunate enough to be a commissioned writer for some BBC comedy programmes and learnt so much about
the structure of the spontaneous! Always joy to hear your comedy heroes speak your lines as if the've just thought of them - miss the great comedy legends Ronnie Barker and the brilliant Kenny Everett - what a loss.
Hero comedy writer is Barry Cryer who kindly assisted my early efforts to break into comedy writing. Barry &
Ronnie Corbett OBE - may you live for ever.
About my libraryYet to comment - need to stand back and think about this, but currently enjoying some children's fiction and collecting as many translations as possible of Paul Berna's books.
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by Edgar Albert Guest
Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
But, he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn’t," but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "couldn’t be done," and you’ll do it.
posted by theoldman at 8:13 am (EST) on Aug 15, 2009