“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
“As for the unbelievers, because of their misdeeds disaster shall not cease to afflict them or to crouch at their very doorstep until God’s promise be fulfilled. God will not fail His promise.” Anyone know where the above quote comes from? It has been called “a literary masterpiece in its own right.”
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Three hundred years ago, a charismatic young gambler and man-about-town with a natural gift for mathematics fled London for the Continent. His name was John Law and he had a good reason to go, having killed a man in a duel. Living off his lucrative winnings at the gaming tables of Europe, Law became increasingly […]
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The Mills of God Grind….Oooops. Done that! Wiki : La Rochelle I researched this inside out, up and down, backwards and forwards. They besieged were forced to boil saddles, eat cats, dogs, rats…Children(?!?) to survive. Ahem. Why? Because Marie de Rohan’s family were half Catholic and half Huguenot. Her uncles were called Soubise and Henri, […]
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This was inspired by Mr SitA. TY :o) I’m a WRITER. I write HISFIC novels. I’ve studied both the Art & the Craft of writing. Me, myself and I totally understand FORESHADOWING Definition of Foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears […]
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In 1660 a small group of men, led by Sir Robert Moray, met in London with a secret plan to reshape the world. They were members of the ‘Invisible College’, better known today as the Freemasons Emerging from the horrors of the Civil War, Britain was a society torn apart by political difference, religious ferment […]
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I bought the book above many years ago when researching my novel. I was trying to find answers to WHY men in the 17th century were so obsessed with their facial hair. Mmmmn. Still don’t understand. Even as a kid I “felt” that men with beards were hiding something. Dunno why! A witty, comprehensive […]
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My Dad was SB. I was RMP. Aced that shit and got the plum posting to Berlin….Check it out (?) My brother was/and went back to the Police Force. I GREW up surrounded by the LAW. The TRUTH. Justice. I gave and WILL prove all and every single piece of EVIDENCE collected to ANY court. […]
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Clearing clutter can radically transform your life. Drawing on her wealth of experience as a feng shui, space clearing and clutter clearing consultant, Karen Kingston explains how clutter is stuck energy that has far-reaching physical, mental, emotional and spiritual effects. This book will motivate you to clutter-clear as never before, once you realise just how […]
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This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky’s ‘psychological record of a crime’ gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously imagining himself above society’s laws. But […]
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Or Percy-phone as some “like” to call her. I was raised on Myth & Legend via a beautiful Xmas present when I was about 5 years old. Crap – does that mean a whole life time spent studying the subject? Crap – does that mean a whole life time spent learning ? ? ? […]
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This was a Must Read book for my English Exam. Yawn. I can’t remember a single word. But…100 years later, I may read it again. And at the risk of Tooting My Own Floot…this is for all you who think that astrology is an instrument of the devil. As the Catholic Church has dictated. Chinese […]
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Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli’s death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the […]
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