“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.”
Again with the glorious Dorothy Dunnett. Niccolò this time. With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among […]
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Y’all may get the wrong idea about me but…m’eh! It’s called RESEARCH! On my shelves, sitting right next to the earlier “Kinky Boots” book recommendation, is this one. The Kiss of the Whip, the Horrors of Centuries of Whipping. All those vicars who lived here before me will be shaking their heads in despair.
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Uh, oh. I’ve just been goosed. Have very dare you? Goosey goosey gander, Whither shall I wander? Upstairs and downstairs And in my lady’s chamber. There I met an old man Who wouldn’t say his prayers, So I took him by his left leg And threw him down the stairs Nursery rhyme first “recorded” in […]
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The Anonymous Venetian? Oooh. The plot thickeneth, forsooth and perchance? :o) OTTOMAN WARSHIPS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN ARMADA OF 1538
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Originally posted on Hidden History Research:
This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves’s vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet’s quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the…
Yup. That oldie writers’ adage. Chekhov says it well enough. That’s why you’ll never know if I’m speaking Scottish or English. Really real or just AI :o) You cannot hear me. No tongue.
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…I have been ignored and/or told to shut up. Very, Utterly, completely DONE with that vibe. ‘Specially when the ones you love most do it to you time and time again. Guess What, sleepy kids – I am a HIGHLANDER through and through. Born in the elements, at one with the energies. We SEE […]
Read MoreI’m NOT a Scientist. So I won’t go into the EMF craptacular stuff. Loving how Every Peeps is now seeing a meaning in songs. HaydiddlyHo
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Always the Bard! What, man! ’tis a night of revels: the gallants desire it. It took me a long time to read the book. And David Suchet a long time to film this episode. Even though Ms Christie had written it quite early in her career. She uses the Iago character So Very Well! It’s […]
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Yup. I have one or several. Sorry to be all Self-Promotey like Whatever. Clairsentience, “clear sensing” or “clear feeling” is an extremely heightened form of empathy. Clairsentience is the ability to feel and experience the energy in an intuitive way. This energy stream includes other people’s feelings, inanimate objects, spiritual insights, and premonitions of the future […]
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There are people that will investigate you They’ll insinuate, intimidate and complicate you Don’t ever wait or hesitate to state the fate that awaits those who Try to shake or take you Don’t let them break you
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