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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Orwell's "Keep The Aspidistra Flying"

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I've just finished it. It's very real, and you're wrung by the wretchedness of the lower-middle-class challenge to cling on to r...
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Saturday, February 27, 2016

Never a shortage of torturers

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Tom Pride ( a pseudonym ) runs a satirical political blog titled " Pride's Purge ", headed by this woodcut: - which presu...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Drawing profit from circumstances

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source Indifferent and passionate, he gave himself rein and drew back constantly, impelled by conflicting instincts, yielding to all,...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Just perfect

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William Blake: Eve tempted by the serpent (1799-1800) Victoria & Albert Museum, London "... of [Blake's poems] ... Wordsw...

Why Boris Johnson may never be Prime Minister

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

A new mode of ignorance

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Why is it that when you twist things out of their natural order, when you become a little sophisticated and want more than you ever did bef...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Don't be busy

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General Slim's day in wartime Burma, fighting the Japanese, "the most formidable fighting insect in history": 6:30          ...
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