Monday, 27 January 2025

Vignette 6: Twenty-five words.*

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He’d once sold cannabis to a troupe of Moroccan tumblers.        ‘It was like selling refrigerators to Eskimos,’ he’d bragged, ‘and even the...
Monday, 20 January 2025

Vignette 5: Twenty-five words.*

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‘ You   on a punitive expedition?’  the colonel mocked.        ‘I’m not joking, sir!’ protested his youngest subaltern, who’d triumphed play...
Saturday, 14 December 2024

Found! The Urtext of ‘The Plague’. Camus and Boy’s Own Paper 1936.

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‘Come on, my only friend in all the world,’ said his masterful young companion, once more getting into his stride. ‘The waves are calling ...
Tuesday, 10 December 2024

Found! The TRUE reason for the decline of titled privilege.

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So Death Duties were NOT the undoing of landed aristocracy – ‘ It is not generally known that Wilde, by fitting the duchesses in his comedi...
Monday, 2 December 2024

Wake.

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                   Midday                                   at a turn                            in the road                                ...
Sunday, 1 December 2024

An Elementary Sampler of the Psyche.

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Superego   Come into the garden, Maud,   I am here at the gate alone;   And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,   And the musk of the ros...
Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Vignette 4: Twenty-five words.*

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  ‘When the taunts of my enemy repeat I am nowhere ,’ replied the blinded captive, ‘such denials insist I live to affirm: “I am now here .” ...