The Oxford Purity Test
☐ Never had an essay crisis? ☐ Published fiction in The Isis? ☐ Haunted by Sylvia’s fig tree? ☐ Did anything for that first class degree? ☐ Identified as a Capulet or Montague? ☐ Worried that Donne’s “The Flea” would work on you? ☐ Have always been a tutor’s pet? ☐ Wrote
My Father the Clown
Everyone has a crisis of some sort at sixteen, right? I’m relieved to say I didn’t end up acting like a clown, but I did paint a portrait of my father as one. This was not my initial plan when I decided on ‘performance’ as my theme for an extended art project in school – […]
