Carl Halling
Born Queen Charlottes Hospital, Goldhawk Road, west London. Born Again Bible Believing Christian Actor, Singer, Songwriter, Writer.
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Your Lethal Life and Other Versified LeftoversBook Two of the book, "Where the Halling Valley River Lies". -
Leitmotifs from an English PastoraleWhere the Halling Valley River Lies - Book One - A Quartet of Essays and a Stray Pastorale - Chapter One - Leitmotifs from an English Pastorale
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Luke the Drifter and the Secrets of CountryLuke the Drifter and the Secrets of Country - Book One - Darling Fan and a Further Quintet of Essays - Luke the Drifter and the Secrets of Country
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So Lovelorn in London TownA short story in the creative non-fiction genre, and therefore based on fact, but with changes made in keeping with the genre.
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Reborn in the Nick of TimeChapter one of a fictionalised memoir
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Reborn in the Nick of TimeChapter Two of a fictionalised memoir -
Reborn in the Nick of TimeChapter Three of a ficitonalised memoir -
Reborn in the Nick of TimeChapter Four of a fictionalised memoir -
Reborn in the Nick of TimeChapter Five of a Fictionalised Memoir -
Reborn in the Nick of TimeChapter Six of a Roman à Clé
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Adversary and Other JeremiadsSix essays on culture, history, art, music, society, literature, morality and more besides. -
My Future Positively GlitteredChapter Three of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child" -
The Triumph of DecadenceChapter Two of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child" -
The Gambolling Baby BoomerChapter One of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child" -
Darling Fan - for Prunella RansomeA tribute to the beautiful English actress, Prunella Ransome, missed with sadness -
A Final Distant Clarion CryThe final chapter of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child" -
The Defeat of a London Alley CatMemories from a Child's West London... -
The Thought-Riddled NatureWhile intellectualism is not evil in itself, of course, it's my contention that intellectuals are more tempted than most by pride, rebellion and sensuality.
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Last Throes of the Modernist AgonyThis essay has been written in a spirit of Christian truth and integrity to the best of my ability. It is very closely related to the essay, "From Avant Garde to Global Village" and very distantly to "From Bohemia to Modernism", among other essays.
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Refugees from a Century's EndA throwaway piece...just for fun... -
The Forbidding Entrance of RockRock is clearly more than just another form of Pop... -
Alternative: The Birth of the BeatsMy views on how the Beat Generation came into being, and then went on to mutate into the Hippie Movement -
From Avant Garde to Global VillageTaken from "Essays, Histories and Memories" by Carl Halling -
Weimar Shadow of Future ThingsMany cultures have made monumental contributions to the development of our great Western Judaeo-Christian civilisation, not least that of Germany... -
The Coming of the AbsalomsWhen it comes to the key events that helped to create the society that emerged in the American/Western World in the wake of the Second World War... -
That Strange Coldness PerplexingChapter 6 of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child" -
The Wanderer of Golders GreenChapter 5 of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child" -
Children of the Brightest SunChapter 4 of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child -
The Restless and the RiotousChapter 3 of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child"
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Take the Tears of a WomanChapter two of "Rescue of a Rock and Roll Child" -
The Wicked Cahoots of Bedford ParkChildhood and Youth in West London... -
The Gambolling Baby BoomerA London story.
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The Tragedy of Phyllis Pinnock 1Part one of a projected autobiographical piece.
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6 Reborn in the Nick of TimeChapter 6 of an experiment in spiritual autobiography in the shape of a novella. -
8. A Final Distant Clarion CryThe eighth chapter of an experiment in spiritual memoir writing in the form of a novella. -
Weimar Shadow of Future ThingsThe Germany and specifically Berlin of the Weimar era as a foreshadow of the contemporary West -
The Coming of the AbsalomsAn analysis of the 1950s, and specifically '55, and how American-Western society has changed since that time.
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Glorify the KingLyrics to Christian songs written by Carl Halling 2001 -
The Mystery of OrmondeThis story treats on Carl Halling, Patrick Halling, Phyllis Mary Pinnock and others involved with the mystery... -
The Ascent of Miss Ann WattThe early life and career of the British-Canadian singer Angela Jean Elisabeth Watt, also known as Miss Ann Watt and Mrs Ann Halling, as written by her son, Christian writer, singer, songwriter, actor Carl Halling
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Rescue of a Rock and Roll ChildAn experiment in spiritual memoir composition in the shape of a novella -
13 Strange Birthday Boy Dancing13th Chapter of an experimental memoir by Carl Halling -
14 Reborn in the Nick of Time14th Chapter of an experimental memoir by Carl Halling
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15 Beyond the BorderlandsThe 15th Chapter of an experimental memoir by Carl Halling -
16 the Twilight of an ActorThe 16th Chapter of an Experimental Memoir by Carl Halling
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17 a Final Distant Clarion CryThe final chapter of an experimental memoir by Carl Halling
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Innocence in HamburgCarl Halling: The Story Continues
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Gambolling Baby BoomersA Seventies Tale
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A Final Distant Clarion CryThe Final Part of Carl Halling's experiment in memoir composition. -
Born on the Goldhawk RoadThe Memoirs of Carl Halling 1.
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Of All Sad Words of Tongue or PenA young man's folly in the 1980s...read and learn! -
The Toilers of the ThamesThe memoirs of Carl Halling -
Shreds of Nothingness (Revised)The Memoirs of Carl Halling.
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Outside the Gates of Sultan (revised)The revised version of "Outside the Gates of Sultan".
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Along Whiteladies Road (revised)Farewell, Lauderdale Tower, hello, Bristol Old Vic! -
Oblivion in Recession (revised)One man's crisis in the early 1990s
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Final Stand of the Advance GuardIn early 1990, I lost my position as a teacher of English as a foreign language in an Oxford Street language school where I'd spent almost two years, the concluding two of a decade somewhat redolent of the '20s and '60s in terms of its glamour and profligacy. -
Genesis of a Gentleman (revised)"Genesis of a Gentleman", the first of a series of seventies-themed pieces, is an account conceived as accurately as possible of how I came to be conditioned by my environment in the early 1970s...
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My Chiswick ChildhoodMy Chiswick childhood was a long time ago...
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Tales from a College that DisappearedUpon a time there was a college, a beautiful college...
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Snapshots from a Child's West LondonThe following story is not so much a story, as fragments taken from spidery writings with which I filled four and a half pages of a school style notebook in what is likely to have been the year of 1977 and artfully glued together.
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Strange Coldness PerplexingAlways near blowing it, living in the fast lane...
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Along Whiteladies RoadIn the summer of 1979, following a year at London's prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, my career as an acting student came to an end. -
The Eyes of Passers-byThe following piece has its origins in the dying days of January 1993.
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My Future Positively Glittered77 was a darker year than its immediate predecessors as I see it.
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Some Perverse WillI have lost the fundamental restlessness.
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Outside the Gates of SultanA seventies dandy locked outside the gates of Sultan in the middle of the night.
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The Genesis of a GentlemanIn the summer of 1972, it was mutually decided between my longsuffering father and the authorities of Pangbourne, a nautical college that it was best I leave after a year in the fifth form and four years in the college itself.
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Where the Halling Valley River LiesMy father was born Patrick Clancy Halling on the 28th of August 1924 in Launceston, second city of the Australian island province of Tasmania but largely raised in Sydney.
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Summer's End1976 was the year in which I came increasingly under the sway of the fifties, a decade far less congenial to my rarified tastes than the Bright Young 1920s, and yet I was thirsty for change.
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The Reveller's EndAdapted, edited, reassembled with slight alterations in favour of verity of time, and of punctuation, from an autobiographical work or rather works with various titles written, destroyed, re-written, re-destroyed...
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A Dandy in the Land of Blue DenimIf my fifty year old memory serves me faithfully, it was some weeks after returning from the Ocean Youth Club trip to the Baltic in the summer of 1975 that I sailed with the RNR to La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast of France.
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"Gilded Youth" at the Guildhall SchoolIn late 1977, with the purpose of training to become a radio officer I joined the Merchant Navy College (in Greenhithe, Kent), the latter, no longer existent, having merged with the Thames Nautical Training College HMS Worcester in 1968.
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Final Stand of the Avant GardeIn early 1990, I lost my position as a teacher of English as a foreign language in an Oxford Street language school where I spent almost two years...
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West of the Fields Long GoneFollowing my initial triumph as an actor in the winter of 1980 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Bristol Old Vic, which moved to the London Old Vic in the summer, I accepted the position of sales assistant in Bentall's china department in Kingston-on-Thames...
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She Dear One Who Followed MeSporadically throughout the 1980s, I catalogued my existence via notebooks, cassette tapes, odd scraps of paper and so on...
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Oblivion in RecessionThe following piece has its origins in the dying days of January 1993.
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Beyond the BorderlandsPhysical healing is in my view part of the Atonement, which is to say God's saving work for humanity through Christ's life, death and resurrection...
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Release, Relapse and RestorationIn the early part of 1994, I embarked upon the concluding stages of the Post Graduate Certificate of Education...
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Ice Spoke of the Spells of CalmFollowing my premature exit from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the summer of 1979, I enjoyed a reasonably extended period of success as a professional actor...
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Shreds of NothingnessThe following piece has been adapted from a page of diary notes, or unfinished and unsent letter, dating from pretty well exactly twenty years ago, which is to say Christmastime 1986, and composed during my brief tenure at the University of Cambridge...
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She Dear One Who Followed MeSporadically throughout the 1980s, I catalogued my existence via notebooks, cassette tapes, odd scraps of paper and so on, and recently, I decided to transform some of these rough diary entries into literary works...
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Birthday Boozer, Solo DancerThe following piece which I have elected to call "Birthday Boozer, Solo Dancer", was compiled on the 21st of May 2006, using, as raw material, a few hastily scrawled notes commemorating a birthday recently celebrated in the early '90s...
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The Long Dark Night of Alfred De MussetConcerning the French Romantic poet Alfred de Musset (1810-1857), and the mysterious emptiness he felt as an immensely attractive and talented young nobleman enacting his gilded youth in the fashionable quarters of the tumultuous Paris of the 1830s.
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Of All Sad Words of Tongue or PenThe ensuing piece was fashioned using my usual methods, which I have described in scrupulous detail elsewhere. It is based on notes I recently unearthed, and almost certainly dating from the early 1980s, '82 perhaps, or '83.
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The Redemption of a Rebel ArtistPerhaps it was the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who first gave expression to the concept of an avant garde of artists on the cutting edge of innovation by asserting that "Poets are the unaknowledged legislators of the world"...
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Such a Short Space of TimeI love... not just those I knew back then... but those... who were young... back then...
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A Paris FlaneurI took the Metro to Montparnasse-Bienvenue, where I slowly sipped a demi-blonde in one of those brasseries immortalised by Brassai...
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A Letter UnsentDear... I haven't been in touch for a long time. Sorry. The last time I saw you was in St. Christopher's Place.
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Wicked CahootsWhen he made his first personal appearance in the dirty alley on someone else's rusty bike, screaming along in a cloud of dust it rendered us all speechless and motionless.
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My Chiswick ChildhoodI was born in the autumn of 1955, close to the undistinguished source of west London's famous Goldhawk Road