A Man of Few Words - The Short Humour of Swan Morrison - Morrison, Swan
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With today's busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in cuneiform script and hieroglyphic writing. The answer could be Short Humour, which can be read at any time and almost anywhere. Far Eastern, low cost, pirate versions of The Oxferd Inglish Ducksionery explain Short Humour as 'Non-serious writing that is not too long'. Swan Morrison defined 'not too long' as around 500 words, and stories, poems and the like began to be written that could be read in their…mehr

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With today's busy lifestyles there can barely be time to read anything. Fears have been expressed that English literature might become the preserve of a few specialist academics, as texts in cuneiform script and hieroglyphic writing. The answer could be Short Humour, which can be read at any time and almost anywhere. Far Eastern, low cost, pirate versions of The Oxferd Inglish Ducksionery explain Short Humour as 'Non-serious writing that is not too long'. Swan Morrison defined 'not too long' as around 500 words, and stories, poems and the like began to be written that could be read in their entirety in less than ninety seconds. A Man of Few Words is a collection of one hundred such examples of SH by Swan Morrison with a connecting theme of life in contemporary Britain. In addition, The Short Humour Site has been created at www.short-humour.org.uk. This site aims to promote the reading and writing of SH both in Britain and throughout the world and to showcase the work of writers of the genre.
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Swan Morrison is the pen name of Brian Huggett. Brian lives with his wife in Hampshire, England. He published his first novel, Judgement Day, in September 2014 and a novella, Deep Black, in September 2015. Judgement Day was the Silver Medal Winner in the 'Fiction - Humor/Comedy' category of Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards - 2016. The sequel to Judgement Day, Until the End of Time, was published in 2020. Brian created the Short Humour Site in 2006 to publish any type of humorous writing of around 500 words. There are currently around 2,500 pieces on the site from around 450 contributors. Five anthologies of stories from the Short Humour Site have been published. Brian has published three books of his own Short Humour - each containing one hundred stories, dialogues, poems, letters, spoof news reports, articles and songs. These books are called: A Man of Few Words, A Man of a Few More Words, A Man of Yet a Few More Words. Details of all the above can be found on the Short Humour Site at: http://www.short-humour.org.uk/ You can also stay in touch with Brian/Swan via: Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShortHumourSite Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swan.morrison LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shorthumoursite