Profit & Delight
A storytelling studio led by playwright Arthur Meek that embarks on creative writing ventures to profit and delight you.
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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 25, 2026
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Withdrawals from the quote bank. (opens the original)
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1.The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society…. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.2.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!patw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressiv
Animals with Jobs. (opens the original)
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Horses running round a ring. Llamas leaping over a pole. Camels standing on crates. A donkey sat on its, er, ass.<img alt="Circus tent with animal silhouettes at night" class="sizing-normal"
Blow Out (opens the original)
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I came off my bike and got really banged up. It’s unfortunately symbolic of a lot of stuff thats been happening to me of late despite what I feel to be good faith efforts on my part to be the protagonist in my life.<img alt="" class="sizing-no
Cat People v Bird People (opens the original)
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I am blessed on both sides with the calibre of my neighbours. But Boss the Catman is really putting our western neighbours to the test. SubscribeJ- and S- love birds. They’ve bedecked the trees on their south facing garden with bird-feeders. Seeds, fatballs, an all-you-can eat buffet.Birds are messy eaters and seeds fall to the ground. Birds land on the ground to eat them. Boss pounces on those birds and tears them to shreds. Blackbird, Blue
The Useless Arts: First Date (opens the original)
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We are doing Clarkson’s Farm meets Startup Podcast for the arts. But it sounds like two writers having a drink in the pub and me having to fetch my own damned sauce for my korean fried chicken wrap (£5.95 incl alcoholic beverage). Then the waitress inexplicably delivers us a bag of nuts. Was she saying sorry for making me fetch my own garlic chilli sauce from inside over by the toilets? Or did she just give it to us by accident when the nice dutch man on the next table had ordered it and had to
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