The View From the Cello Section
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Chapter 5a: What We Put in the Gaps – Twitter Reaction
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Lana Carrington @CelloLana: What we Put in the Gaps: There are rumours going around Westmouth again. I am going to deal with those first because ... http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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Thoughtful post from @CelloLana on the unconfirmed rumours circulating around campus today. http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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LauraM @LauraMWesty: @WestmouthStudents The university needs to tell us if another attack happened silence just makes people more frightened
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @LauraMWesty Agreed. Confirming whether an incident was reported does not require disclosing what happened to any woman involved.
Tom Harrison @TomHarrison89: @CelloLana If it was murder the police would have said something
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @TomHarrison89 Probably. That is one reason not to announce that a murder occurred because somebody heard it in a queue for coffee.
Charlotte Wills @CWillsPolitics: “I don’t know is a complete sentence.” Especially when the alternative is inventing increasingly graphic violence against an unknown woman. http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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Ben Matthews @BenMWestmouth: @CWillsPolitics Women have a right to know how dangerous the campus is.
Charlotte Wills @CWillsPolitics: @BenMWestmouth Yes. That means accurate warnings, not imaginary corpses.
Ben Matthews @BenMWestmouth: @CWillsPolitics Easy to say until someone else gets attacked.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @BenMWestmouth False information does not become protective because it is frightening.
Sophie Ellis @SophieReadsThings: Started @CelloLana’s post thinking about ethics and campus safety. Ended it shouting “YOU DID WHAT?” at my laptop. http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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Bethany @BethNeedsCoffee: @SophieReadsThings Wait. I stopped after the rumours bit.
Sophie Ellis @SophieReadsThings: @BethNeedsCoffee GO BACK.
Bethany @BethNeedsCoffee: @SophieReadsThings OH MY GOD. @CELLOLANA KISSED SPORTING PARTNER.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @BethNeedsCoffee Please do not issue bulletins.
Bethany @BethNeedsCoffee: @CelloLana You issued a 2,000-word bulletin.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @BethNeedsCoffee On Tumblr. That is different.
Bethany @BethNeedsCoffee: @CelloLana You tweeted it!
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @BethNeedsCoffee Shit! It was automatically shared and I forgot! Twitter contains people I know! SHIT!
Lily @LilyAtWesty: @CelloLana Have you forgotten that I follow you on here?
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Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @LilyAtWesty Until approximately thirty seconds ago, yes.
Lily @LilyAtWesty: @CelloLana You told Tumblr before you told me.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @LilyAtWesty I did not tell Tumblr. I wrote about it on Tumblr.
Lily @LilyAtWesty: @CelloLana That distinction exists only in your head.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @LilyAtWesty It is an important and carefully maintained distinction.
Lily @LilyAtWesty: @CelloLana I left you two alone for ONE badminton session.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @LilyAtWesty You went running. Can we talk about this somewhere other than Twitter?
Lily @LilyAtWesty: CelloLana My room. Now!
Lily @LilyAtWesty: For the record, I returned from the track to find Sporting Partner in our kitchen, Lana icing her knee and both of them smiling strangely.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @LilyAtWesty That is not “the record” That is an inflammatory summary.
Lily @LilyAtWesty: @CelloLana Is any part of it inaccurate?
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @LilyAtWesty Accuracy can still be inflammatory.
Maya @MayaOnFirst: @Cellolana @AriPlaysViolin @FinnOnViola our next rehearsal will be conducted with absolute maturity and professionalism.
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Ari @AriPlaysViolin: @MayaOnFirst no it won’t.
Finn @FinnOnViola: @MayaOnFirst I’m arriving early.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @MayaOnFirst I expect everybody to concentrate on Beethoven.
Ari @AriPlaysViolin: @CelloLana We will. Specifically the romantic passages.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @AriPlaysViolin Beethoven is not Romantic.
Finn @FinnOnViola: @CelloLana She means the kissing bits.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @FinnOnViola There are no kissing bits.
Maya @MayaOnFirst: @CelloLana Not with that attitude.
Westmouth Music Student @WestyMusicAnon: @MayaOnFirst: @Cellolana @AriPlaysViolin @FinnOnViola A member of the university orchestra kissed someone after badminton and has now ordered her quartet to concentrate on Beethoven. Music department scandal at last.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @WestyMusicAnon I am going to throw my phone into the river.
Maddison Powell @MPowellBadminton: Can confirm @CelloLana and partner beat us 30–29 in the third. Cannot confirm events after the final point as I was contemplating retirement. http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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Geoff Wallace @GeoffWBadminton: @MPowellBadminton I saw it.
Maddison Powell @MPowellBadminton: @GeoffWBadminton You see nothing when disappointed.
Geoff Wallace @GeoffWBadminton: @MPowellBadminton I saw enough.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @GeoffWBadminton Geoff!
Geoff Wallace @GeoffWBadminton: @CelloLana Excellent match. No further comment.
Ross McEwan @RossMcEwan: New pair take Wallace/Powell to 30–29 after three weeks together. Suddenly looking forward to meeting them in the semi-final.
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Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @RossMcEwan We have two matches to win before the semi-final.
Ross McEwan @RossMcEwan: @CelloLana Aye. But apparently winning produces quite the celebration.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @RossMcEwan I preferred you when you were intimidating.
Gemma Saunders @GemSaunders: @CelloLana He has never been intimidating.
Ross McEwan @RossMcEwan: @GemSaunders National champion.
Gemma Saunders @GemSaunders: @RossMcEwan Still not intimidating.
Badminton Problems @BadmintonProbz: Your partner finally calls “MINE” correctly at 29–29. What happens next may surprise him. http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @BadmintonProbz I dislike everything about this presentation.
Micester Sixth Form @MicesterSixth: Hang on. Blonde cellist. Westmouth. Badminton. Paul. Lana Is this who I think it is? http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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JenAtUni @JenAtUni: @MicesterSixth We know its @cellolana. Partner is obviously Robertson. Head Townie strikes again.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @JenAtUni Please don’t call him that.
JenAtUni @JenAtUni: @CelloLana You called him it at school.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @JenAtUni Yes and I was wrong to do so
JenAtUni @JenAtUni: @cellolana you used to defend him at school too you fancied him like everyone else
Shop Floor Jack @shopfloorj: @JenAtUni Paul Robertson and Alannah Carrington? Did not have that on my post-Micester bingo card.
Matt From Micester @MattFromMHS: @shopfloorj She definitely did.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @MattFromMHS You know nothing about it.
Matt From Micester @MattFromMHS: @CelloLana You just published that you’d thought about kissing him before.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @MattFromMHS That is not permission to reconstruct my school life for entertainment.
Matt From Micester @MattFromMHS: @CelloLana Touchy.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @MattFromMHS Accurate.
Micester Rumours @MicesterRumours: Robertson moved on from the Liddington heiress to the cello blonde, then? http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @MicesterRumours You have managed to demonstrate the entire first half of my post without understanding a word of it.
MicesterRumours @MicesterRumours: @CelloLana Clarissa was rich. That isn’t a rumour.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @MicesterRumours Reducing a dead girl to her inheritance is not improved by being technically factual.
WestyConfessions @WestyConfess: WHO IS SPORTING PARTNER? Twitter demands answers. http://tmblr.co/cl258wpig
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Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @WestyConfess Twitter has no standing in the matter.
WestyConfessions @WestyConfess: @CelloLana We’ve received a name.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @WestyConfess Do not publish it.
WestyConfessions @WestyConfess: @CelloLana You used his real first name, school, sport and several identifiable friends.
Lana Carrington @CelloLana: @WestyConfess Yes. I underestimated how identifiable those details would become outside my usual readership. Please do not compound my error.
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