The word 'habitat' leads us to 'habit', and any home has a rhythm, and a domestic micro-culture with a language, rituals and jokes.
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We are neighbours, best friends, enemies, cousins, family, brothers and sisters. We are none of these words and we are all of them and none of this is defined.
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Under the roof, and in the thirty-one acres, we are now 'individuals', yet two distinct social groups are formed. One group is created by the other. Mum becomes one of the Adults, a powerhouse in dungarees. The other social group is the Kids.
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H. G. Wells described utopias as shadows of light thrown by darkness. The light unfolds and refolds lives. Utopias tend to follow devastating periods, as they are an attempt to look forward and imagine a better world. #crossman24 #HomeIsWhereWeStart
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We know we can't live in suburban houses; they are filled with Thatcherite monsters. Where do you go to from utopia?
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I run through the next 3 years, write short stories, make films, organize midnight cabarets, interview Maya Angelou, sing in a folk band, perform 100 plays, have a disastrous love affair with another older man, work in Romania in an orphanage... and return to India
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Human social networks: a need for small-scale groups, with 1.5 intimates, 5 close friends, 15 best friends, 50 good friends and 150 friends. According to Dunbar, it is not possible to be intimate with a crowd of fifty ever-changing people.
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Me: how many?!
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That summer, my brother and I joke with Alison that we are the only Founding Members left in the house. We are the oldest members of the community. This gives us a kind of status and a prestige, as we're finally at the top. But we're at the top of nowhere.
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Despite his criticism of hope in The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus stated that it is (nearly) impossible to live without it; and that summer, hope feeds me. It is food in my body, vitamins for my soul.
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Children of utopian communities are exiled; we cannot ever go home from here.
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Diane Arbus's words: "There's a quality of legend about freaks...Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.'
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In the box are paracetamol pills, and I count them because I need ten. This
is the number it takes to die. Natasha and I read it in a book. Every day I ask, 'Should I die, or stay alive?'
Self-harm replaces what words cannot say.
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I keep two diaries - my own private diary, and the official trip diary for school. The latter must b ewritten daily and will be checked and handed into the teachers. They are two entirely different records, but I am used to compartmentalizing.
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But I conclude the assessment by writing, 'Praying helps This is the dichotom praying helps.' Between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, even though I have no memory of this ever happening is good. Gramm often write in my diary, 'I pray daily.'
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We know we can't live in suburban houses; they are filled with Thatcherite monsters. Where do you go to from utopia?
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Throughout our childhood, Claire was my witness, and I was hers.
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Someone nods a head in compassion, because one by one the Adults seem to agree it is difficult being around the Kids. Everybody knows the Kids are now difficult.
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They say, 'It isn't the first time he has been difficult.' Jim says, 'He struggles being around the Kids. It's a pattern.
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People listen, and then another man, who is also a therap ist, adds,'We mustn't forget we are all essentially good. We can all be forgiven.'
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Throughout my childhood I eat this bread, and as an adult, in our French kitchen, I relish it. Heavy wholemeal bread - detested by my partner and daughters is my Proustian madeleine.
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Italo Calvino wrote most things about you.' In our Kitchen, flies buzz over from the plates, but the sticky papers that our over from the ceiling have gone.
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Mao said the Chinese Revolution allowed the people to grasp the essence of the thing'. In any utopian experiment, inhabitants seek unprecedented authenticity, the space to be themselves.
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Talk of solitude... It is the last resort of the civilized: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alone.'
Virginia Woolf
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During siesta time, I think of what Jules Michelet says, that we must faire parler, make the silences of history speak.
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God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.'
Walter de la Mare, The Return
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Looking back now at how we veered between adulthood and childlike innocence,I see that our knowledge was as precarious as the bales of hay balanced around us. As an adolescent I was naive, green as uncut grass, going deeper& deeper, trapped in our utopian labyrinth.
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But, in the community, our threads have been cut. Each stalk disconnected. No thread can lead us out because our connection with our families and history was broken when our utopia left the past behind.
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The weight of our small differences is ignored. We have broken what Jean Baudrillard called 'the boundary markers' of the symbol known as 'home'. Bang. The Adults repeat: "The Kids are out of control.'
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