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Even as a child I knew I wanted to have hundreds of passwords
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Christopher Davis
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Christopher Davis
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I think about books for a living. “In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice”.
North East England/London Katılım Temmuz 2009
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They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.
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Why not Spring?
“What is all this juice and all this joy?”
I still remember when the teacher put this up on the projector. I had never even heard of Hopkins before, and I knew within seconds it would change the way I read poetry altogether.
Bret van den Brink@BretVDB
If your friends aren’t talking about Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Ribblesdale,” you need new friends.
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Somehow Keir Starmer is as self-serving, careless, unreliable and dishonest as Boris Johnson was, but he remains deeply boring and colourless, with none Boris’s occasional roguish charm. Starmer’s uninterestingness was supposed to be his appeal but he’s both dull and terrible
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New 2029 election projection just in!
Everybody's Going Home 48%
Glasto & Sharia 30%
Cornish Independence Party 7%
Spreadsheets & Death Party 2%
Betrayal & Lies 1%
Wolf Rewilding Party 1%
(Ballots spoiled by blood, wee and tears, 11%)
Source: Astral Plane Polling
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Surely, if it doesn’t exist already, somewhere an author is now rushing to finish a novel in which the Pope, at the end of a tough day administering to the universal church, slips into the mean streets of Rome to tackle crime that the Italian police just can’t crack themselves
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karaoke bars should have an option for people who can't sing good to do recitations. reading Ozymandias or the Gettysburg Address or the USS Indianapolis speech with the little ball bouncing on the words
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Starmer to address the nation this morning: breakfast clubs for everyone?
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“Each night / His shrewd eyes bolt the door and set the clock / Against the future”
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Why is the government having Keir Starmer, supremo of embarrassing u-turns, front up the effort to put an ultimatum to junior doctors?
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@_F_B_G_ @Peter88902568 I’m also imagining a prequel in which we learn that the Major was there as a younger man, and that’s how he came to live there
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@Peter88902568 Probably my favourite little joke in FT is when O’Reilly asks Manuel where ‘the Generalissimo’ is and he incredulously answers ‘in Madrid!’
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I hope ‘Fawlty Towers Revisited’ is actually like Brideshead Revisited- a melancholy eulogy for the golden age of naff British hotels with the theme of Manuel’s Catholicism bubbling up throughout.
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As strangely clairvoyant adverts target me I ponder whether wearing cricket jumpers would be like stolen valour
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