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Trigger points are really varied and often completely unexpected. I've found myself responding to the words and rhythms of popular songs - they can be quite affecting (as Dennis Potter discovered). Sometimes it is a sentence or two read or heard on the radio (I jot them down in my notebooks). Quite
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often, it is an encounter with some ancient thing - a fragment of a Greek sculpture, a tiny figure in a medieval embroidery. Then there are the old, old stories - Paradise lost by
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