The haircut continues, with Mr Salter removing a towel from the customer. “I wanted to attend the meeting, but I was clear I didn’t want to turn away business,” said Mr Salter, who has run Cowboymod for more than 25 years. Ahead of his speaking slot, Mr Salter could be seen using his scissors to trim the hair of a customer, who remained off camera. As the meeting went on, he whipped away the towel protecting the customer s clothes from falling hairs, totted up the bill, and bid goodbye to the man whose hair had been cut. The salon owner, artist and musician lives above his Walton Street premises and spoke at the meeting to give his support to removing the barrier, debate over which has divided the local community.
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“it’s really only good if people use it well”
[awkward silence, no further discussion]
As a part time professional ‘creative writing tutor’, I can say I only ever teach the present tense as one tool among many. I do not urge it on my ‘sensitive and artistic storytellers’, or any of the insensitive ones either. I teach students that verbs are the way they create a relationship for the reader to time, and function a little like the way a horizon line might in a picture. As for using it to dodge the ‘politically dodgy’, well, I can’t imagine teaching anyone that way with a straight face and so that strikes me as something of a straw man. Or, woman, perhaps. As Laura Miller notes in that same coverage, William Gass wrote in 1987 on what seemed to him to be the alarming increase in the Present Tense suggesting it was in some way related to the increase in women writers. And, yes, of course, writing programs.
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