Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child

• Carl's Favourite Links From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (65 days old)

  Carl's Favourite Links: http://carlhalling.livejournal.com http://carlhalling.blogster.com http://myspace.com/wallyseventee http://myspace.com/swingtette… more

• 7 A Final Distant Clarion Cry From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (359 days old)

  Twilight of an Actor Following on from Jim Cartwright's bitter-sweet two-hander "Two", which I touched on in some detail in "The Trials of a Teetotaller", I performed in one last play at the Rose a… more

• From a Child's West London From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (691 days old)

  Introduction "From a Child's West London", the second and last of two pieces based on my childhood in the west London of the 1960s, is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings … more

• Gambolling Baby Boomers From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (691 days old)

  Introduction "Those Gambolling Baby Boomers", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, tells how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s after leaving Pangbourne Coll… more

• An Innocent in Hamburg From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (691 days old)

  Introduction "An Innocent on the Reeperbahn", the second piece in a series of seventies-themed writings takes place in 1973 and 1974 in a variety of locations. Among these are London and its suburb… more

• In an English Seaside Town From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (691 days old)

  Introduction This third story in a series of seventies-themed pieces was built in February-March 2006 from scribblings committed to a notebook in 1978-'79, and concerning events that took place in … more

• The Sweetness of Wrens From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (691 days old)

  Introduction An early draft of "The Sweetness of Wrens" was published as "A Dandy in the Land of Blue Denim 2" at Blogster.com on the 21st of April 2006, since which time it's undergone much modifi… more

• My Future Positively Glittered From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (691 days old)

  Introduction "My Future Positively Glittered" consists of two previously published pieces in slightly modified form, these being "My Future Postively Glittered", now divided into two sections ("Glo… more

• Gilded Youth at the Guildhall School From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction An initial draft of "Gilded Youth at the Guildhall School" was published at Blogster.com website on the 1st of July 2006, since which time it's undergone considerable modification. The… more

• West of the Fields Long Gone From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction "West of the Fields Long Gone" consists of pieces from formerly published writings: "First Night of the Dream" and "The End of the Century Young" were taken from "Ice Spoke of the Sp… more

• Ice Spoke of the Spells From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction: A Westfield Narrative 1 "Ice Spoke of the Spells" is the second in a four-part series of writings inspired by my time at Westfield College. It was created out of modified versions of… more

• From Paris to Golders Green From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction The various sections of "From Paris to Golders Green", formerly "Tales from a College that Disappeared" as earlier published in rudimentary form at FaithWriters, are intended to provid… more

• Of All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction "Of All Sad Words" made its debut at the Blogster.com website on the 25th January 2007 as "Of All Sad Words of Tongue or Pen". It consisted of an introduction, the main body of the wor… more

• A Cambridge Lamentation From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction "A Cambridge Lamentation" centres on my brief stay at Homerton, a teaching training college contained within the University of Cambridge, with its campus at Hills Road just outside the… more

• Strange Coldness Perplexing From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  A definitive version of "Strange Coldness Perplexing" was first published at FaithWriters on the 31st of March 2007. It has remained more or less untouched since. My Hot/Cold Torment the catholi… more

• Lone Dance of the Birthday Boy From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  The Petrified Fool In early 1990, I lost my position as a teacher of English as a foreign language in an Oxford Street language school where I'd spent almost two years, the concluding two of a deca… more

• Oblivion in Recession From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction The following piece has its origins in rambling notes I made towards the end of January 1993, and which referred to incidents which began on the 16th of that month and lasted for sever… more

• Beyond the Borderlands From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction A first version of "Beyond the Borderlands" was published at Blogster.com website on the 5th of September 2006. A year and two months later, the definitive version was published at Fai… more

• The Trials of a Teetotaller From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction "The Trials of a Teetotaller" was originally published as "Release, Relapse and Restoration" at the Blogster.com on the 9th of November 2006. In December 2007, a definitive version was… more

• 19 The Twilight of an Actor From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (692 days old)

  Introduction In the first place "The Twilight of an Actor" existed as nothing more than the poem "Such a Short Space of Time". In the winter of '06, I took out certain key portions of an unfinished… more

• A Final Distant Clarion Cry From CarlrHalling in Carl Halling - Rescue of a Rock'n'Roll Child (693 days old)

  Introduction “A Final Distant Clarion Cry” consists of diverse unrelated writings which I painstakingly knitted together to make a suitably grand finale to my as yet untitled experiment in spiritua… more

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