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A Cognolog is five small suggestive paragraphs drip-fed one per day. The purpose is to encourage imaginative and critical thinking and also to provide topics for conversation and exploration.
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Cognologs and Cognostories are nearly ready. Here’s a click-for-more story to inspire you to have a go at the five-part format. Remember, the object of the exercise is for you to stop and think about the story and how it might continue for yourself.

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George Barker decided this would definitely be his last pint. He’d lost count long ago and it was time to stop.
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Thought-provoking articles in five parts

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“Sometime in the next month I’ll be starting a daily cognolog”.

“What is that?” I hear you ask.

“I’ll explain” I reply.

“Oh get on with it!” you say.

“OK Are you sitting comfortably?”

That was a conversation – of sorts. However even though it was supposed to be you, the reader, alternating with me, the writer, of course I did all the ‘talking’. So you’re completely passive. That’s the nature of the reader/writer relationship.
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