Charles Davis's Writings
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Article
Mar.21.2009
Extract from Bumping About Brittany
In the last couple of centuries, western countries have devised various solutions to the novel problem of how one should go about walking for pleasure. It was a quandary quite alien to previous generations. In the past, people walked because they had to, because they were too poor not to, because there was no food or work or fun where they were, because salvation...
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Article
Mar.21.2009
Extract from Bumping About Brittany
Travel between England, France and Spain, and you will notice that there are distinct techniques for keeping a conversation going. In England, talk is passed from person to person, like a small and delicate parcel that everyone must touch but nobody must snatch and which can only be unwrapped if each person peels off a sheet of paper in turn. Doesn't matter if...
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Article
Mar.20.2009
Every writer sets out to tell you something, but only the reader can say what has been told, and often as not it bears little resemblance to what the writer had in mind. That’s why books are such a blast: reading is a re-creative experience and it’s a wise writer that gives the reader enough material to make up their own book. Daniel Klein is a wise writer...
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Short Story
Mar.20.2009
Changes
My father only had one leg. He lost the other one in the war. He didn’t mislay it. He rode over a mine on his motorbike. He got blown up, the motorbike mangled his leg, and he was left for dead. He lay there for three days. Then they noticed he was still alive. So they sent him home and cut his leg off. He had the choice, mind you. The doctor told him he could...
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About Charles
Charles Davis was born and educated, and has travelled and worked. He now lives and writes. That has always seemed to me to be enough biography for any writer, but being an avid reader, too, I appreciate that curiosity demands a bit more, so . . . .
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Connections
Causes Charles Davis Supports
Oxfam, Amnesty International, Greenpeace