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- Synecdoche and MetonymyI wanted to write a really angry piece about someone but I cannot be bothered as his or her misdemeanour is so low-life that reacting to it in any specific way is pointless. I know the anger inside my head and where it is directed and that is enough.I used to think that my being insulted at school for being the kid who wanted to read a book rather than play football was because I was in the wrong and I should be more like the rest of the kids. But it is a sudden realisatio ... |
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Hotel (Oct 30 2003 09:31 GMT) - I'm re-reading an ancient copy of Wheels. So much for a book that's sold a 150 million copies... it seems to be out of print now!Arthur Hailey was one of my favourite authors growing up because of the "insider view" you came away with after reading one of his books. If you read Hotel, (you thought) you knew all about what happened inside a real one. |
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- I'm re-reading an ancient copy of Wheels. So much for a book that's sold a 150 million copies... it seems to be out of print now!Arthur Hailey was one of my favourite authors growing up because of the "insider view" you came away with after reading one of his books. If you read Hotel, (you thought) you knew all about what happened inside a real one. |
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- Those with a particular interest in musty books virtually defined by their endless streams of bad prose, lack of discipline, and horrific narcissism dressed up as scholarship, click here and here and here. |
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- Those with a particular interest in musty books virtually defined by their endless streams of bad prose, lack of discipline, and horrific narcissism dressed up as scholarship, click here and here and here. |
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- Those with a particular interest in musty books virtually defined by their endless streams of bad prose, lack of discipline, and horrific narcissism dressed up as scholarship, click here and here and here. |
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- Dear Body,So I hop along to Indigo last night and buy this book about my fertility. Im amazed at how much I dont know about you.Mainly, that you might have been failing me all along!According to my chart, Im not getting any periods because you dont produce enough estrogen for me to ovulate. This means my periods might not be periods at all but really just days when you dont feel like producing any estrogen. |
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- I've been reading this, something of a ripping yarn. I'm amused by the Amazon reviewer who's taken the time to slag it, especially in pointing out the inaccuracies.It's fiction! And I love the idea that he feels qualified to criticise someone else's view of what might have happened 2000 years ago. It's f-i-c-t-i-o-n. |
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- I knew when I became a parent that I'd face days likethis. What a horrible experience.Leaving aside the information that I find no magic in anything Disney (bar the odd Pixar production distributed by them), I can't see where they get this "100 years" nonsense from, either. Walt Disney was born in 1901, so we're 102 years on from that. And Steamboat Willie was released in 1928, which is 75 years ago. |
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Stellaluna (Oct 30 2003 09:31 GMT) - StellalunaThis is a really sweet book about a young fruitbat that gets seperated from her mom and lives with a couple of birds. I have absolutely nothing with stuffed toys but the Stellaluna toy has been with me for almost 10 years now. Also, I adore the name Stellaluna. Beautiful. |
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- I've just finished a fabulous book titled The Last Continent - Discovering Antarctica by Bernard Stonehouse (preface by the magic Tony Soper) which offers a blow by blow account of what you would expect to visit if you had shitloads of spare cash and could afford one of these 'Dangerous tourism from the comfort of your cruise liner' expeditions. From the start, the tome assumes that you are - without a doubt - in your right mind to want to spend several weeks on an ice-breaker in the middle of ... |
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- [comics] Brian Bolland cover for the latest Animal Man Reprint Graphic Novel ... [via plasticbag.org]'I've seen more death and pain than you could ever dream of. Fifty thousand years of it. Dying on sharpened stakes, on torture racks and fires. |
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- [comics] Behind The Masks -- Philip Pullman on Art Spiegelman's Maus [Buy: UK | US]...'Maus does have a profound and unfailing "strangeness", to use Bloom's term. Part of this is due to the depiction of Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, and so forth. This is what jolts most people who come to it for the first time, and still jolts me after several readings. |
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- Abbie Hoffman: "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." |
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- Abbie Hoffman: "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." |
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- Silicon.com Oct 30 2003 3:45AM ET... |
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