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Between January 2022 and March 2023 I wrote a sort of memoir entitled "Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story". I'd long had the idea to write a preposterously comprehensive and (if such a thing were possible) entirely honest CV, by way of a "life story" because I thought it might be entertaining and might have artistic merit. So when when I found myself sat down at my desk in 2022 trying to write a CV after years of unemployment, I allowed myself to get carried away. I didn't quite finish it that year. I abandoned it (and the hope of gainful employment) when the weather improved, and there was outdoor work to be done. But the next winter I found time to return to it, and while I couldn't by then finish it in the manner I'd originally planned, I decided to edit the Google-doc to what I considered a readable standard, round it off, and send it to some agents; who weren't interested.
Owing to changes in my personal circumstances which I won't go into just now because while relevant they also somehow aren't, I have decided to publish the entirety of "Curriculum Vitæ" on this website that nobody ever visits, in instalments as though this was the nineteenth century and I was Charles Dickens or Thomas Hardy or one of those lads.
This project was, like most things I write now that I'm beyond the ascendant part of my life, probably for posterity more than anything else; so these blog-posts I intend to post onto this blog will be... actually... not unlike any other given blog-post (micro- or macro-) that I might have offered up unto the ether (or whatever) since the dawn of data back in ninety-ninety-something. They allege, if they do not quite prove, that I exist; that I existed. I can promise little more than that. That, and that I've changed all your names in case you were about to accuse me of libelling you. Concerning truth: this memoir should considered more as a primary historical source, with all the questions of context, and bias, and reliability that that implies, rather than as a work of creative nonfiction; because it exists outside of a market, and has thus not been subjected to standardization.
I published the first couple of chapters as blog-posts in September 2024, along with the various preambles (this now included among their number). And I will continue to publish the rest, a couple at a time, sequentially, until the process reaches its conclusion.
If you'd like to read my "working life story", you may. Chapters will be added as links on this page, shortly after they are published. It's probably best read chronologically (but who am I to tell you what to do?)
Alternatively you can listen to me reading the chapters into a refreshingly affordable microphone on Spotify:
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