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Wednesday, 1 July 2015

John Steinbeck on Fish and Relativity

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Those of us who work with non-sciency things like language and social studies have learnt not just to accept the lack of universal truths an...
Tuesday, 27 January 2015

How Not to Annoy - The World Citizens Guide for Americans

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The war-time line "overpaid, oversexed and over here", used to describe Americans in Europe has in later years been rewritten to ...
Saturday, 13 December 2014

This Year's Christmas Story: Kurt Vonnegut's "A Present for Big Saint Nick"

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This year's Christmas story comes from Kurt Vonnegut. It is perhaps not the first Christmas story you would read to your children, yet ...
Saturday, 1 November 2014

De Quincey and the Cursed Crocodile's Kisses

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Dreams always baffle and interest us. They are products of our own minds, but products we do not ourselves form and therefore psychologists ...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Perfecly Golden, Wodehouse - Service with a Smile

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Welcome to the belated third bulletin in the series  "Perfectly Golden, Wodehouse" ! As the the bees are buzzing in the bushes goi...
Saturday, 26 July 2014

Romeo and Juliet Must Die

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Have you ever wondered why all the romantic stories end when one part gets the other? Romeo and Juliet meet each other, marry and then promp...
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Friday, 25 October 2013

David Mitchell and Kurt Vonnegut on Addiction

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We all have our addictions, some more persistent than others. Mine is an endless string of "complete works of..."s. Luckily thoug...
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Sir Bob Bunbury
A blog for generally constructive purposes, for although the self is royal it hungers and thirsts like a pauper. These notes but whet its appetite and it soon returns to its abject state. However, a continuous stream of nourishment can sate and alleviate and this is what I aim to provide. Use what I have written, that's what it's for, but give credit where credit is due.
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