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	<title>Norman Allan's Blog &#187; Drama</title>
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		<title>concepts: poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Concepts
 
 
energy
a word as worn as love
and we’re really talking spirit here
or pattern
and not the four forces of physics
for the most part
 
spirit ‘s a good’un
at least its a word
that doesn’t pretend
to mean anything in particular
essentially a mystery
Sister Catherine said
 
spirit and energy
pattern and taste
presence
 
presence
now there ‘s a word
hard to describe
unless you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditating on Life&#8217;s Door</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil's hands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[String Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what I do]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ananda ghanda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diaphragm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[life gate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life's door. life's gate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just posted a page about meditating on mingmen, Life Gate or Life&#8217;s Door, the diaphragm&#8217;s cross.
 
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		<title>My Leonard Cohen Story: The Bourgeois Blues</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/drama/my-leonard-cohen-story-the-bourgeois-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Allan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moans]]></category>
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the video

 
 
 
 
the text:
My Leonard Cohen Story: The Bourgeois Blues 

This concerns Lee Harper&#8217;s amazing first poetic outpouring, which my father sent to Leonard Cohen. Lee was, and is, beautiful, so Ted enclosed a &#8220;head shot&#8221;.
    A few days later Ted said to me, &#8220;You write poetry,&#8221; and then something like, &#8220;Wow! Your good. You&#8217;re really good*,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mayan Creation Myth</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/drama/the-mayan-creation-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mayan Creation Myth and Why Things Are As They Are
I have just post a video of me reading this short story/sketch.
click here for the video, here for the text


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		<title>Ted Allan, my father: part two</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Allan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Ted Allan, my father: part two, I talk about his history with his sister  Sadie, which he wrote as a play, I&#8217;ve Seen You Cut Lemons, directed by Sean Connery, which he and Jiohn Cassavetes later adapted as the play and film, Love Streams. I also talk about Leonard Cohen and the Bourgeois [...]]]></description>
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		<title>green ideas</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/buddhism/green-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[they should put timers on the street lights!


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		<title>Ted Allan</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/drama/ted-allan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 19:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Allan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend has asked me to post more of my biography of Ted, and particularly chapter 17, Ted and I, so here are 3 more chapters&#8230;
Chapter Twelve: Deodar Road, Putney. 
Chapter Thirteen: Martie the mobster&#8217;s wife
Chapter Seventeen: My Father and I and a cycle of rescues.

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		<title>posting for post&#8217;s sake</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/drama/posting-for-posts-sake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 20:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mate Bill said,&#8221;Post every day,&#8221; but first I got busy, and then I ran out of things to say. So I&#8217;m pushing it&#8230;
The Seven Laws of Drama is really neat, and not enough of you are looking at it when, infact, it explains just about everything. Take a peak&#8230;

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		<title>no swastikas: happy auschwitz</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/consciousness/164/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consciousness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Madrid 1937]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
to view larger click here
you can find more at works on wood
.

.
Visit my picture gallery
Most of the work can be purchased through the Laurier Gallery &#8211; 416 232 0217 &#8211; or phone 416 928 9272 or email me to arrange this.
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		<title>Ted Allan, a biography; chapter 14, Sex</title>
		<link>http://normanallan.com/blog/books/ted-allan-a-biography-chapter-14-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Allan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ted Allan, a biography; chapter 14, Sex
&#8220;Ted&#8217;s favorite things were work (writing) and women. However, when he was younger, sex was not a simple pleasure.&#8221;
A few years back I wrote a biography of my father, the dramatist, Ted Allan.Then a short while ago I took it down off the internet to re-edit it, and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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