The Wordless – or Julia Callan-Thompson as high priestess of the aporetic

My mother Julia Callan-Thompson didn't publish very much during her lifetime, but anyone who has read her diary and letters will know she was a natural when it came to putting pen to paper. What follow are a couple of pieces by my mother that appeared in issue one of an underground publication called Shoestring put together by Sonya Perry in Harlech, north Wales, crica 1974. Cutting to the quick, here's my mother's humorous essay from that Roneoed journal:

STILL IN THE SAME KICK

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