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Monica Carroll

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Ironed for making love

by Monica Carroll on 22/11/202022/11/2020

Writers on writers on writers.

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Body, Fiction, Writing

out from the real world

by Monica Carroll on 17/11/202017/11/2020

What is travel, writer?

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Change, Fiction, Ong, Writing

On saying that

by Monica Carroll on 02/11/202002/11/2020

What should be hidden?

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Donald Davidson, Fiction, Meaning, Writing

Demon

by Monica Carroll on 25/10/202025/10/2020

Do you know your demons?

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Orwell, Writing

The need-fire

by Monica Carroll on 04/11/201903/11/2019

Afflicted with writer’s blight? Strike a need-fire.

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Change, Frazer, Writer's block, Writing

“Philosophy may be called a sublime ability to say the obvious, to exhibit what is closest.”

by Monica Carroll on 28/10/201927/10/2019

Think deep? Think deeper.

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Murdoch, Philosophy, Thinking, Writing

Your herbs and flowers

by Monica Carroll on 21/10/201920/10/2019

Keep out swine, dog and beast.

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Poetry, Women, Writer's block, Writing

What do you write with your last year of life?

by Monica Carroll on 14/10/201908/10/2019

Did Keats have regrets?

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Keats, Time, Writer's block, Writing

Gather inclination

by Monica Carroll on 07/10/201930/09/2019

When the pen is too heavy to be lifted by the hand.

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Baudelaire, Desire, Writer's block, Writing

What makes no difference?

by Monica Carroll on 30/09/201927/09/2019

Can you miss the boat on writing? No.

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Ancient Rome, Time, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

A blue tailed coat, yellow waist-coat and trousers with high boots

by Monica Carroll on 23/09/201909/09/2019

What do you think of Werther? No matter what you think, by page’s end you will know him.

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Fiction, Goethe, Pain, Writer, Writing

Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen

by Monica Carroll on 16/09/201908/09/2019

What is the one thing you can do that ties it all together?

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Courage, Nietzsche, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

Speechless yearning in Lucretius

by Monica Carroll on 09/09/201908/09/2019

Want it. Write it. Never settle.

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Ancient Rome, Desire, Lucretius, Words, Writing

Asking after the oblique mystique

by Monica Carroll on 02/09/201931/08/2019

Is our writing always in the last place we never look?

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Barthes, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

End of the World

by Monica Carroll on 26/08/201925/08/2019

If the end is nigh, why not write it out?

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Ancient Greek Philosophers, Dictionary, Time, Voltaire, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

Has this ever happened to anyone you know?

by Monica Carroll on 12/08/201911/08/2019

It’s never too late to help a poet in trouble. Reach out. Make contact. Save them from themselves.

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Fiction, Nabokov, Philosophy, Poetry, Writer's block, Writing

Παραθαρσύνω: embolden and encourage

by Monica Carroll on 05/08/201931/07/2019

Are you reading your tactics book hard enough?

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Ancient Greek Philosophers, Courage, Philosophy, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

Poetry is a controlled refinement of sobbing

by Monica Carroll on 29/07/201923/07/2019

Do you cry? Or weep? Or sob?

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Pain, Poetry, Value, Writer, Writing

Preachings from six elderly doctoresses

by Monica Carroll on 22/07/201913/07/2019

Writers can avoid betrayal.

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Medieval, Trust, Women, Writer's block, Writing

Thorough rebuke, all you proud poets

by Monica Carroll on 15/07/201903/07/2019

Write what is forbidden, please.

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Poetry, Trust, Women, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

If experience ruptures your philosophy of life let writing be your constant

by Monica Carroll on 09/07/201903/07/2019

What do you do when it hurts too much?

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Change, Dionysius, Pain, Philosophy, Trust, Writer, Writer's block, Writing

I am a thorn: beneath the nail

by Monica Carroll on 02/07/201927/06/2019

You get to choose for yourself.

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Philosophy, Poetry, Seeing, Writer, Writing

How can hair come from what is not hair, or flesh from what is not flesh?

by Monica Carroll on 27/06/201903/07/2019

Name your fatherland and always be at home.

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Anaxagoras, Philosophy, Value, Writer's block, Writing

One must hate literature in order to be a philosopher

by Monica Carroll on 18/06/201918/06/2019

Even when your living flesh is scraped apart from you with the blades of oyster shells, you must write.

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Disgust, Hypatia, Masochism, Sadism, Writer's block, Writing

It’s not you, it’s them

by Monica Carroll on 11/06/201911/06/2019

Who is to blame when words won’t behave?

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Poetry, Words, Writer's block, Writing

The energy of dislike

by Monica Carroll on 03/06/201929/05/2019

Write what is forbidden and set yourself free.

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Disgust, Pain, Philosophy, Trust, Writer's block, Writing

What we think becoming, others call unseemly

by Monica Carroll on 27/05/201924/05/2019

Is a change in perception about our writing possible? What can we learn from the neck of a dove?

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Capacity, Husserl, Perception, Phenomenology, Plato, Seeing, Writer's block, Writing

The gift has already been given

by Monica Carroll on 20/05/201916/05/2019

What did Prometheus give to us all?

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Philosophy, Poetry, Trust, Value, Words, Writer's block, Writing

Consult the oracle

by Monica Carroll on 13/05/201911/05/2019

How can we predict the future of our unwritten works?

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Philosophy, Trust, Writing, Writing environment

Make words speak louder than actions

by Monica Carroll on 07/05/201907/05/2019

What is a worth worth compared to the deed?

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Value, Words, Writer's block, Writing

Nonumque prematur in annum

by Monica Carroll on 29/04/201928/04/2019

How long should it take to write? How long should we give to our writing?

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Time, Trust, Value, Writer's block, Writing

Gather from rills that run with honey

by Monica Carroll on 22/04/201922/04/2019

Shall we blame the writer for writer’s block?

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Capacity, Description, Phenomenology, Plato, Poetry, Writer's block, Writing

Phaedrus 245a

by Monica Carroll on 16/04/201914/04/2019
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Philosophy, Plato, Poetry, Writer's block, Writing

Writer’s block (ii)

by Monica Carroll on 09/04/201909/04/2019

What are the conditions of a writing breakthrough?

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Capacity, Desire, Writer's block, Writing

“So the days pass and nothing is done”

by Monica Carroll on 02/04/201901/04/2019

A quote from Joseph Conrad

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Writer's block, Writing

If I were Queen

by Monica Carroll on 28/03/201928/03/2019

What would happen if English had a robust subjunctive mood?

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Desire, Fiction, Imagination, Social, Trust, Writing

Is writer’s block a social condition?

by Monica Carroll on 19/03/201908/03/2019

What results from a change in perspective on the locus of writer’s block?

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Social, Writer's block, Writing, Writing environment

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

by Monica Carroll on 12/03/201912/03/2019

What are the claims in the story of writer’s block?

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Capacity, Desire, Writer's block, Writing

Writer’s block (i)

by Monica Carroll on 05/03/201905/03/2019

What are useful metaphors for understanding writer’s block?

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Writer's block, Writing

Some notes on disgust

by Monica Carroll on 05/02/201905/02/2019

How can we talk about disgust in a way that matches the force of it as an experience?

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Description, Disgust, Imagination, Materiality, Phenomenology, Sensation, Writing

Epistemological concussion and masochism

by Monica Carroll on 04/01/201904/01/2019

Can knowledge and experience ever reflect each other?

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Masochism, Pain, Sadism, Seeing, Writing

Why did we hurt sadism?

by Monica Carroll on 31/12/201831/12/2018

What must phenomenology do to be able to see past difficult cultural frameworks to the experience of things themselves?

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Description, Fiction, Imagination, Pain, Sadism, Writing

Is the writing the philosophy, or the object of a philosophical process?

by Monica Carroll on 18/12/201812/12/2018

Writing in phenomenology is Ausdruck, not a result.

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Description, Husserl, Phenomenology, Writing

Is philosophy a result or a process? A done thing or a doing?

by Monica Carroll on 12/12/201812/12/2018

Messy, difficult and inconsistent. That is good philosophy.

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Description, Phenomenology, Writing

What can a phenomenologist see when they look at the world?

by Monica Carroll on 05/12/201805/12/2018

Want something for free? The world, the oyster, are given to you. Giveness is a quality of the world bestowed to anyone who cares to perceive.

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Description, Gegebenheit, Giveness, Perception, Phenomenology, Seeing, Writing

Is pain a pleasure through ‘some strange alchemy’?

by Monica Carroll on 26/11/201824/11/2018

To write a defence of masochism is a brave and difficult task. Weak claims about pain and pleasure undermine the effort.

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Description, Husserl, Pain, Phenomenology, Writing

Opening into the dog; how phenomenology gives us fresh eyes

by Monica Carroll on 19/11/201815/11/2018

Phenomenology can seem like a lot of long words and concepts but it’s really a process for seeing the world as it is.

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Husserl, Intentionality, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of mind, Seeing, Trust

How does phenomenology generate knowledge?

by Monica Carroll on 12/11/201805/11/2018

Too often, phenomenology is made into a step-by-step process that claims a knowledge outcome. Knowledge, however, in a phenomenological study, is an altogether different beast.

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Description, Husserl, Phenomenology, Writing

What can you do with a Stupid Detector?

by Monica Carroll on 05/11/201805/11/2018

A lot of what is ‘peer-reviewed’ and published as phenomenology is, my stupid detector reports, stupid. But why?

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Description, Husserl, Phenomenology, Philosophy of mind, Trust, Writing

How writing rescues us from being dull and blind

by Monica Carroll on 31/10/201801/11/2018

To write a description is to wield a special magic. Description moves us from being blind, dull and predictable into being visionary, original and of truth.

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Description, Ingarden, Phenomenology, Writer's block, Writing

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