Catherine Eisner
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Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Strewthisms : A Little Dictionary of English Exclamations and Curses as Religious Euphemisms
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Extraordinarily enough, this year, I realise, marks twenty years since the first submission of my ‘Strewthisms’ proposal to Penguin Referenc...
Monday, 10 June 2019
Arbour. Amour. Affaire de Coeur . . . Saboteur.
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At the farther end of our garden, behind the boxwood maze, there was a bower with honeysuckle and other creeping plants overlooking th...
Thursday, 31 May 2018
That space the Evil One abstracted . . . and attention gained with forked tongue . . .
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This morning I was awakened by the ‘tsk-tsk!’ of a stonechat. In Provence or thereabouts they call the bird Le Tarier pâtre (the Shepherd...
Saturday, 26 March 2016
Lament of a Girl Led Astray (score from Sister Morphine).
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Put a tenner on the table as yer leavin’, Put a tenner on the table won’tcha, dear. Put a t...
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