“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.”
There are a VERY few people that I Truly Envy. In the true meaning of the word ENVY : a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities, or luck. Maybe just two. This feeling has nothing to do with jealousy or hatred or anything negative. It’s more of a wistful […]
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Was a tanner. Both of my brothers and I called him Sam when we were not with him. He tanned leather. When I was a kid, the tannery was a short walk from Castlerig and the grotty flat that he and Lily lived in. It was a huge building beside the canal. And it STANK. […]
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Watching the Titus Lector Hannibal Andronicus 1999 film recently got my one & only little grey cell vibrating with questions. Why does T.A. enter Rome as a Roman Warrior carrying the mummified bodies of his 25 sons? Rome? Mummies? How many mummies have been found in Rome then? So far, the computer is telling me […]
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Said this before. Once or several times. We lived in Bulford twice. It’s eight miles away from Salisbury and Wilton House was a place that I visited quite often. On my own. The first time in 1985. It’s so wonderful to see people like Alexander Waugh doing PROPER research and building on ALL their previous […]
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BTW, sweet reviewer below…Poirot is BELGIAN not French. FACT. And he’s always very annoyed when he’s called French. P.S. The image above is a quote from Death on the Nile. For ME, David Suchet IS Poirot.
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SNAP and Gin Rummy are the limits of my card playing knowledge. Apart from Tarot. The ZERO card is ?
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I think y’all know by now that I am NOT a fan of Ian Fleming or Bond (Who Always to me is the TRUE representation of the King of Wands in the Tarot…King Dangalang displaying his wand) For the meelyonth time : I’ve written about Fleming and his close friend Dorothy Dunnett. The both started […]
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Life according to Wiki: Christopher Marlowe was the first English author to achieve critical notoriety for his use of blank verse[citation needed]. The major achievements in English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and John Milton, whose Paradise Lost is written in blank verse. Miltonic blank […]
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She stalked me all the way through the Euro GlobeLie Tour via T4. Amanda Panda B Demander ? 69??? Sham 69 She’s NOT Punk. She’s F’ugly and a DESPERADO……Why don’t U come to u’re senses ? PretenderPanda :o)
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I bought and read this book when it was first published. I’d have to trawl the attic rooms to ipad photo MY book…what I bought. Morecambe & Wise quote. The Play What I Wrote. Never Mind. Check this quote. Or the Bible. Through a Glass Darkly is a 1986 historical fiction novel by American author Karleen Koen. A former […]
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Was Kit Marlowe Shakespeare’s servant ? Ooooh! Suspense R US, yes? My little brother shares a certain name with a certain 16th c playwright. Mum told me that she called him Kit as a nickname. But it never stuck :o( I like KIT. Dr Faustus, anyone? I like Mr Waugh too. Very much.
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No names mentioned but …..! Mambo Number 5? It was in Lyons that a respectable individual, whose acquaintance I made at the house of M. de Rochebaron, obtained for me the favour of being initiated in the sublime trifles of Freemasonry. I arrived in Paris a simple apprentice; a few months after my arrival I […]
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